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I  Engliflo  Metre.  \ 

f  Being  the  New-England  Pfalm-Boolc  | 
I  Revifed  and  Improved  \  By  an  Endeavour  t 
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I  Grder,  from — 7"^  /*//  c/"  Angels  and  Men,  ' 
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$        in  all    Wifdom  $  teaching   and  admoniiliing  one  another  S 

i       in  Pfalms  and  Hymn?,  and  Spiritual  Songs  j   Singing  with  1 
i       Gcace  in  your   Hearts  to  the  Lord. 

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*       and  Spiritual  Songs,  finging  and  making  Melody   in  your  ■» 

i       Hearts  to  the   Lord.  * 

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Is  any  merry  ?  let  him  fing  Pfalms. 

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The   PREFACE. 

Section  I.  Hi/toryoftbeNEW-ExGLAKD 
Pfalm-Book. 

THE  Firji  Settlers  of  the  New-England- 
Colonies;  who  came  to  Plymouth  in  1620  ; 
to  Salem,  with  //$/•?(?  Minijlers  for  the  Majj'a- 
chufetts,  and  0//?  for  Piymouth,  in  1629;  and  with 
the  Majfachufetts  Charter,  Governour,  Deputy-Go- 
vernour,  Affiftant$,/c«r  Minijlers,  and  1500  People* 
to  B often  and  the  Neighbouring  Towns  in  1630;  were* 
efteem'd  in  England,  as  fome  of  the  mod  eminent 
for  Scripture-Knowledge,  Piety  and  Uriel  Adherence 
to  the  Word  of  GOD,  as  any  in  their  Day.  They 
wifely  made  the  Divine  Oracles  the  only  Rule  of 
their  Religion  :  and  their  great  and  noble  Defign  was 
to  fpread  the  holy  Kingdom  of  C  hr  i  st  in  its  Scripture- 
Purity,  Light  and  Power  in  this  New  World  ;  and  tar 
fet  up  Churches  for  their  Matter,  Form,  Worfhip, 
JLiberty,Watch,  Government  andDifcipIine,  as  near  as- 
pomble  to  what  they  were,  under  the  Conduct  of 
Infpiration,  in  the  dpojlles  Days, 

By  1636  there  werecome  over  hither  near  thirty  pious 
and  learned  Minijlers,  educated  in  the  Univerjities  of 
England:  and  from  the  fame  exalted  Frinciple  of 
Scripture  Purity  in  Religious  V/orJhip,  they  fet  them- 
felves  to  tranflate  the  PJahns  and  other  Scripture  Songs 
into  Englijh  Metre,  as  near  as  poffible  to  the  infpir '  d 
Original.  They  committed  this  Work efpecially  to  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Richard  Mather  of  Dorchefter  ;  the  Rev, 
Mr.  Thomas  Weld,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  John  Eliot  of 
Roxbury  ;  well  acquainted  with  the  Hebrew,  in  which 
the  Old  Teftament,  and  with  the  Greek,  in  which  the 
New  were  originally  written.  They  £nilhed  the  PJahns 
in  1640  :  which  were  firft  Printed  by  Mr.  Day,  ih?.z 
Year,  at  our  Cambridge  %  and  had  the  Honour  of  being 
the  Firft  Book  printed  in  North -Am  erica,  and  as  far 
as  I  find,  in  This  whole  New  World. 

a  2.  I 


11 


The    P  R  E  FA  C  E. 


I  havefeen  another  Edition  in  1647  (and  I  conclude 
at  Cambridge  too,  there  being  no  other  Prefs  in/Wau- 
England  then)  with  fome  Amendments.  But  for  a 
further  Improvement,  it  was  committed  to  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Henry  Dunjhir,  Prefident  of  Harvard  College,  one 
of  the  gre.ueft  Mailers  of  the  oriental  Languages  that 
has  been  known  in  thefe  Ends  of  the  Earth  :  who  was 
helped  as  to  the  Poetry,  by  Mr.  Richard  Lyon,  an  in- 
genious Gentleman,  probably  brought  up  at  one  of  the 
Univerfities  in  England,  fent  ovei  by  Sir  Henry  Mild- 
way  as  a  Tutor  to  his  Son* at  Harvard  College,  and 
i elided  in  Mr.  Dunflars  Houfe.  By  an  original  Ma- 
nufcript  of  Heads  of  Sermons  written  after  Mr.  Lyon 
in  1650, 1  find  He  us'd  to  take  his  Turn  with  the  Pre~ 
Jident  to  preach  to  the  Congregation  at  Cambridge  in 
the  Interval  between  Mr.  Shepard's  Death,  and  Mr. 
Mitchell  Ordination":  And  in  thofe  Heads  appear  the 
Traces  both  of  Experimental  Piety  and  Ingenuity. 

In  t<wo  or  three  Tears  they  feem  to  have  compleated 
it,  with  the  Addition  of  the  other  Songs  in  Scripture  : 
And  they  not  only  had  the  Happinefs  of  approaching 
nearer  to  the  infpirsdOriginalthzn  all  other  Verjhns 
in  Engl  iff}  Rhyme,  but  in  many  Places  of  excelling 
them  in  Simplicity  of  Style,  and  in  affecting  Terms, 
being  the  Words  of  GOD  which  more  ftrongly  touch 
the  Soul.  On  which  Accounts  I  found  in  England  it  was 
by  fome  eminentCongrcgations-prefer'd  to  all  Others  in 
their  Puhlick  Worjhip,  evendown  to  17 17,  when  I  Lit 
left  that  Part  of  the  Britifl?  Kingdom. 

It  feem?  a  thoufand  Pities  then,  that  fuch  a  Verjion, 
which  has  more  of  In/pi ration,  and  therefore  of  Divine 
Authority  and  Influence  on  the  Heart  than  others, 
fhould  on  Account  of  the  Flatnefies  in  diverfe  Places, 
be  wholly  laid  afide,  and  not  rather  mended  and  pre- 
ferred in  our  Churches  ;  as  has  been  earneftly  defired, 
by  many  of  refined  Tafte  and  Judgment :  and  efpecially 
fince  the  learned  and  ingenious  will  by  an  accurate  Ex- 
amination (ind,  that  the  nearer  we  come  to  the  true  Sen- 
timent and  Spirit  of  the  admirable  Original;  the  more 
fulJ  of  Subilance,  Life  and  Majefty,   and  the  more 

moving 


The    PREFACE.  iii 

moving  will  the  Verfion  be :  i.  e.  I  mean  when  we  find 
out  Words  rightly  reprefenting  the  Sentiments  of 
Infpiration,  and  range  them  in  a  proper  Order. 

Sect.  II.  An  Account  of  this  Improvement. 
My  great  Defign,  at  the  Defire  of  many,  therefore 
is — a  Labour  to  preferve  the  Sub/lance  of  our  New- 
England  Verjion  in  our  Churches,  by  Reviling  and 
Improving  it ;  rifing  and  keeping  as  near  as  poflible  to 
the  exalted  Sentiments  of  the  Original,  and  expremng 
them  in  the  cleareft  Style,  and  agreable  to  the  Rules 
of  Poetry.  .And  for  this — It  was  my  Duty,  Fir/}  to 
look  to  the  Divine  Infpirer,  to  purify  my  Heart,  en- 
lighten my  Mind,  lead  me  into  his  own  Intentions,  and 
direct  me  in  reprefenting  them. 

But  then  the  Method  I  purfued  was  this 

I.  I  collected  all  the  different  Veifions  in  Englijh 
Metre  I  could  find,  which  are  above  30,  and  I  think 
all  but  2  :  and  comparing  the  ill:  Pfalm  in  them,  both 
with  the  Profs  Verfion  in  our  EnglifJ?  Bibles  and  with 
the  Hebrew,  I  found  about  20  took  too  great  a  liberty 
to  vary  from  the  Original',  and  felected  12,  including 
the  New-England — as  keeping  nearer  ;  to  which  I 
added  another,  chiefly  for  fome  of  the  Pcetry. 

II.  My  Endeavour  then  was  to  gain  all  the  Senti- 
ments, efpecially  the  great,  fublime  and  moll  impor- 
tant, in  the  Original.  And  in  order  to  This — ift.  I 
read  over  the  whole  Pfalm  in  our  EngliJJ?  Bible,  with 
the  inftructive  Margin.  2d.  I  labour'd  to  put  my  felf 
in  the  fame  external  Circumflance  and  internal  Cafe, 
and  to  have  the  fame  Senfations  and  Views  with  the 
Pfalmift.  3d.  I  read  every  verfe  (1)  in  the  faid  Eng- 
lifli  Bible  :  and  having  the  Polyglot  Bible  before  me, 

(2)  in  the  Hebrew  with  Mont  anus's  Inter  lineary  ; 

(3)  the  Septuagint ;  (4)  the  Chaldee  ;  (5)  the  ancient 
Latin  j  (6  &  7)  the  LatinVerfions  of  the  Syriack  and 
Arabic k  ;  (8)  Cajialio  ;  (9)  Trejnelius  &  Junius  ; 
(10)  Ainfworth  ;  (11)  Be  Muis.  4.  When  I  met 
with  Difficulty,  I  fearch'd  the  following  famous  Lexi- 
cons, (1)  Avenarius,  (2)  Schindler,  (3)  Pagnineznd 
Mercer,  (4  &  5)  Buxtorfs  2  Lexicons,  viz.  Hebrew 

and 


iv  The    P  RE  F  dC  E. 

andChaldaick^c  (6)  Leigh,  {j\Caftellus,  (8)  Bytb- 
ner,  (9)  Martin  Albert  As  alio  the  Interpretations 
of  Moller,  Trevulius,  Gldfttus;  Jfihjwprtft,  DeMuir, 
Hanw:o?rd,  Pod* j  S\nopftr,  Patrick,  arid  Others. 

All  this — only  to  gain  the  Sentiments — And  then 

III.  1  look'd  into  the  '  ew- Engl 'and as  the  Ground- 
work, and  then  into  the  1 1  other  Metrical  Verfions 
in  their  Order:  and  comparing  them  ; — in  Honour  to 
the  Word  of  Gcd  which  demands  the  Bert,  I  tho't  it 
my  Duty  to  ufe  the  befl  IVgrds  or  Lines  in  them  fo  far 
as  they  give  the  near  eft  '■  enfe  of  the  Original,  and  are 
f/tqft  mufical ;  and  where  they  fail  in  either,  to  endea- 
vour a  further  Improvement. 

And  avoiding  Additions  which  are  not  plainly  im- 
plied in  the  Hebrew,  on  the  one  Hand,  and  Omifons 
on  the  other  ;  I  keep  as  near  as  poinble  to  the  Origi- 
nal :  Only  whereas  the  Hebrew  above  all  other  Lan- 
guages I  know,  is  fo  wondroufly  full  of  Senfe,  that 
Avenarius  obferves,  even  the  copious  Greek  muft  in 
many  Gafes  ufe  feveral  Words  to  exprefs  the  fu/l  Senfe 
of  a  Jingle  Word  in  Hebrew  :  Where  the  Original 
therefore  plainly  fgnifies  or  hints  2xSentirnents  which 
are  not  feen  in  our  Engliflj  Bible,  I  venture  to  give 
them,  citing  my  Authorities  :  And  tho'  the  Reader 
may  be  apt  to  think  that  in  many  Places  I  add  to  the 
Original  ;  yet  if  he  duly  fearches  into  the  Hebrew, 
He  will  doubtlefs  fee,  as  I  have  often  feen  with  Sur- 
prife,  the  Sentiments.  I  have  only  endeavoured  to  rife 
into  and  give  the  grand,  exalted  and  lively  Sentiments 
and  Hints  of  In/pi ration. 

And  this  IMPROVEMENT  differs  from  ether 
Poetical  Verfions  in  thefe  Particulars — 

I.  Whereas  in  others,  by  the  meer  Reading,  we  can 
never  tell  where  GOD  or  LORD  is  in  the  Original  or 
not :  For  they  often,  not  only  put  One  for  the  Other, 
but  alio  infert  them  where  they  are  not,  and  leave  them 
out  where  they  are: — In  this  Revifal  ( r)  As  J  AH  is 
a  glorious  Name  peculiar  to  the  Supreme  Being,  Pfal. 
Ixviii.  4;  wherever  it  is  in  the  Original  I  preferve  k. 
(2)  Wherever  is  the  Word  JEHOVAH,  another  Name 
peculiar  to  Him,  Pfal.  lxxxiii.  1 8.  and  founds  with  fur- 

pafling 


Tfo'P  R  E  F  AC  E,  v 

paffing  Grandeur  and  Solemnity;  I  always  write  either 
JEHQVAH,  efpeciaJly  where  his  Greatnefs  or  Majefty 
is  reprefented,  or  LORD  in  Capitals.  (3)  Wherever  is 
the  Word  Adona  J,  whole  natural  Signification  feems  to 
be— Lord ;  there  1  infert  LGrd  in  lialick.  (4)  Where- 
ever  is  the  WordiELOHiM,  which  is  a  famous  Nameof 
GOD  in  the  Plural  Number,  and  thefirf  a/Vin  Scrip- 
ture, asinC7<?».i.  1 ;  tho'  itfome 'times figuratively  ligni- 
tes Mighty  Men  and  Angels  ;  There  I  always  write 
GOD  or  Gods  in  Capitals.  (5)  For  the  other  Names 
of  GOD,  as  Ml  and  its  Derivative*,!  always  write 
God  in  Roman  Character,  but  not  in  Capitals.  I  think 
Divine  Infpt rat ion  cannot  be  too  exactly  reprefented  ; 
and  where  the  Wifdom  of  Infpiration  makes  a  Diffe- 
rence, we  fhould  do  fo  too. 

II.  Wherever  is  the  famous  Word  Hallelujah, 
whofe  Signification  is — PraifejA  h  ;  as  well  as  theWord 
Amen,  whofe  Signification  is — So  be  it  j  I  carefully 
preferve  them. 

III.  Wherever  is  the  Name  Messiah  in  Hebrew, 
which  figniiies  The  Anointed  ;  I  either  keep  the  Word 
Mess  1  a h  or  infert  theName  C h r iST,which  is  theWor  d 
in  Greek,  Latin  and  Engiijh,  of  the  fame  Signification. 

IV.  Confiftent,  as  I  apprehend,  with  the  Latitude  of 
the  Hebrew  Language*  the  PalTages  which  areexprefs'd 
by  our  Poets  in  the  Form  of  Curfes,  or  revengeful 
WiJJyes,  I  always  chufe  to  exprefs,  agreeable  to  the 
Prophetick  Spirit  of  Infpiration,  and  the  Graces  of 
the  fame  Spirit,  not  in  the  Form  of  WiJJjes  in  the 
Singers,  but  in  the  Form  of  Affertions  or  Prophecies 
indited  by  the  fore-feeing  Spirit  of  Infpiration. 

V .  Inftead  of  the  diminutive  Terms  of  Hills,  Floods, 
Landsznd  Skies,  commonly  usdby  our  brighteft  Poets, 
I  ufe  wherever  I  can,  the  more  grand  and  noble  Words 
— Mountains,  Seas, Earth  and  Heavens;  where  thefe 
greater  Ideas  are  exprefsM.  in  the  Original, 

As  the  Pfalmijl  paints  the  Works  of  GOD  in  Nature 
in  perfect  Purity,  I  try  to  keep  as  near  at  poffible  to 
Nature.     For  gra,  I  feek  the  moftmajeJ[icJt 

Words  \  for  tender  e  feftejl  V/or'ds ,  for 

'  affe  cling 


vi  The    P  R  E  F  AC  E. 

affecling,the  mob  moving;  tor  wondrous,  themofty?r/- 
king:  and  in  all  aiming  at  the  clearej}  Simplicity  of 
Style ;  wherein  the  Sentiments  are  more  eafily  feen,  more 
directly  reach  the  Heart,  and  touch  it  with  a  flronger 
Energy.  I  ufe  no  JVordsy  Ellipfes,  or  Terminations  % 
but  what  are  usM  by  the  beft  Poets  of  the  prefent  Age : 
and  as  for  Epithets  and  Words  of  Explication,  I 
rarely  ufe  them  but  where  I  think  they  are  plainly 
implied  in  the  exceeding  full  Original, 

Some  Notes  I  add  forthe  Satisfaction  oftheLeamed : 
the  Reft,  for  the  Inftruftion  of  others  ;  that  they  may  not 
fing  in  Uncertainty  or  meer  Amufement,  but  with  Under- 
flanding.  A  Star*  fignilies — ItisfoinHEBKEV/acctrd- 
ing  to  all  the  Lexicons.  In  fuch  Marks&sthek  []  are 
brief  Explications  I  tho't  convenient  to  be  inferted  for 
the  clearer  View  of  the  Senfe  :  as  in  fome  Titles,  &c. 

If  any  would  compare  This  with  any  other  Verfions  ; 
I  only  beg,  that  they  would  ferioufly,  either  Fir/}  read 
the  Place  in  Hebrew,  or  at  leaft  in  the  Englijh  Bible 
with  the  Margin, 

Having  begun  this  Work  on  April  29,  1755,  anc* 
being  encouraged  to  proceed  by  the  Refpeclable  Bre- 
thren of  the  Congregation  I  belong  to,  I  defire  to  praife 
the  Most  High  for  carrying  me  on,  through  Multi- 
tudes of  Avocations,  Interruptions  and  Infirmities,  to 
the  End  of  the  Pfalms  by  the  Lajl  of Auguft  I756,and 
to  the  End  of  the  other  Scripture-Songs  by-  the  20th 
of  March  1757  :  And  to  his  Glory  and  Bleffing,  and 
the  Edification  of  his  People,  I  humbly  refign  it.  Ren- 
dering my  hearty  Thanks  to  the  ingenious  Gentlemen, 
who  generoufly  helped  me  with  their-  acute  Corrections ; 
I  clofe  with  my  earneft  Prayers  in  the  Terms  of  the 
Final  Claufe  of  the  Authors  of  the  ancient  Preface 
to  the  New-England  Verfion,  exprefTed  in  their  ufctal 
beautiful  Simplicity  of  Language ;  "  That  we  may  fing 
"  in  Zion  the  Lord's  Songs  of  Praife  according  to  his 
'«•  own  Will,  until  he  take  us  hence,  and  wipe  away  all 
*'  our  Tears,  and  bid  us  enter  into  our  Master's  Joy, 
«•  to.  fing  eternal  Hallelujahs  !w 

=**$£•£,$?'  T.  PRINCE. 


PSALM     I. 

[  TheHappinefs  of  the  Godly,  6  Mlfery  oftheUngodly] 

1  f~*'^    Blefed  Man  who  walks  not  in 

M  g        the  council   of  ill  f  men, 

m^        B    Nor   frands  within  the  finners   way  ; 
^^--^  nor  fc offers  *  fe-it  fits  in. 

2  But   on    JEHOVAH'S    written  law 

he  places    his    delight  ; 
And  in   his    law    he   meditates, 
with   pleafure   day   and  night. 

3  Eor   he  is  like    a  goodly    tree 

by    rivers    planted   near  ; 
Which    timely   yields    its    fruit,    whofe    leaf 

fhall  ever   green    appear  : 
And   all  -he   does   fhall    profper   ftill.  f 

4  Th'    ungodly    are    not    fo  ; 
But   like    the    chaff  which  "by    the    wind 

is    driven    to    and   fro. 

5  l  irerefore   in    Judgment  (hall    not   ftand 

fuch   as    MBgodly    are  ; 
Nor  in    th'   -aJfembly    of  the  juft 
fhall   finnei's    then   appear. 

6  Becaufe   the   way   of  righteous    men 

the    LORD    approves    and  knows  ; 
"Whereas    the    way    of  evil   men 
to    fure   delhu£Kon    goes. 

B  £  Lang 

•f  III,  rather  than   Wicked,   feerris   more  fuitable   for  the  lozveft 

Step  of  the   treble  and  beautiful  Gradation  here  cbferved    ty 

the   Learned. 
*  The  Hebrew  fign'fie?  Scojfers  5    and    fo   the  CkaJdee,   Syrlaek 

2nd  A'-abick  :    I  e.    fuch  £5  fcof  at  the  Religion  infpu'd  by 

God,    or  at  thofe  who  pra^rice  it. 
J  \.  e.  Continually — as  js  plainly  implied;    to  comport  with  the 

S«a£e  of  the  proceeding  Pr.it  of  the  Verfe, 


z  P  S  A  L  M     I.    II. 

[  Long  Metre.  ] 
I  /^\  BlefTed   man   who  walks   not  in 
V^/  The   counfel    of  ungodly   men, 
Nor   ftands   within   the  finners    way, 
Nor  will   the   fcoffers   feat   fit  in. 
3  But  in    JEHOVAH'S   written  law 
He  takes  exceeding   great  delight; 
And  in  his  law   he   meditates 
With  pious  pleafure   day  and  night, 

3  For  he  is  like  a  goodly  tree 
To   ftreams  *  of  waters*   planted  near; 
Which  in  due  feafon  yields  its  fruit, 
Whofe  leaf  mail  ever  green  appear  ; 
And  all  he  does  fhall  profper  ftill. 

4  But  the  ungodly  are  not  fo  : 
For  they  are  like  the  chaff  which  by 
The  wind  is  driyen  to  and  fro. 

5  Therefore  in  jadgment   fhall  not  (land, 
Such  as  ungodly  are,   as   clear  ; 
Nor  in   th'   afTembly  of  the  juft 
Shall   finners   in  that   day  appear. 

6  Becaufe   the   way   of  righteous  men 
The  LORD   with   approbation  knows  ; 
Whereas  the  way  of  evil    men 
To   their  entire   deflruclion   goes. 

PSALM    II. 

[The  Exaltation  a?id univerfal  Reign  <t/*Christ.] 
i   Y  T  7HY  do  the  tribes   and  nations  ||  rage 
VV       and    form    a   vain  defign  ? 

2  Kings   cf  the  earth  do   fet  themfelves 

and    princes    plotting   join, 
Againfl  JEHOVAH  and  his  CHRIST,  % 
with  one    confent,   and    fay, 

3  "  Let    us  afunder  break  their   bands 

"  and   caft  their  cords   away  !" 

4  But 

*  So  it  is  exafrJy,  and  moft   properly,  in   the  Hebrew. 
{]   So   the  Hebrew  and    all   the    ancient   Verfiom. 
T   In  Hebrew    'tis  Messiah}    i.e.    Christ   in  Greek,  Latin 
'  -,  and   to  all  the  ancient  Vtrfans. 


. 


PSALM    II.  3 

4  But  He  who   fits  in  heav'n  will  laugh, 

the   Lord  will   them   deride  ; 

5  In  anger  then  to  them  He'll  fpeak, 

in   wrath    to   vex   their   pride. 

6  "  See   I  have  fet  my   king   upon 

"  Zion   my  holy    hill, 

7  "  And   the   immutable   decree 

"  proclaim  abroad   I   will." 

8  The  LORD  faid,  "  Thou  my  Son,  this  day, 

"  have  I   begotten  thee  !  f 
"  Afk,   and   the   nations  *  I  will  give 
"  thine    heritage  to  be. 

9  "  And  of  the  earth  thou   malt   pofTefs 

"  the   utmoft  coafts  abroad  ; 
"  Thy  foes  (halt  break  as   potters   ware, 
"  and  cruih   with   iron   rod." 

io  And  now  ye  kings,  be  wife  ;   be  learn'd 

ye  who   earth's   judges    are  ; 
ii  Serve  ye  the  Lord   with  reverence, 

rejoice  with  trembling   fear. 
12  Kifs  ye  the   Son,   left   by   his   wrath 

ye   perifh   in    your  way  : 
When  once  his  wrath  a  little   burns, 

blefs'd   all   that   on   him    flay. 

[  Long   Metre.  ] 

i  VI 7HY  do  the  nations  move  and  rage, 
V  V     And  people  form   a  vain   defign  ? 

2  Kings  of  the   earth   do   fet    themfelves 
And   princes  in  deep  plots  combine, 
With    one  confent   againfl   the  LORD, 
And   his   Messiah,  *  and  dare  fay, 

3  "  Let  us    afunder   break    their    bands, 

"  And  caft  their   cords    of  rule   away  V* 

B  2  4  Bui 

•f*  Applied  to  Christ,  A8tx\\\.   33.    Heb,  iii,  5. 

*  So  the  Hebrew,  Septuagintt  Syriack  and  ancient  Latin* 


4  PSALM    IIL 

4  But  He   who   fits  in  heav'n   will   laugh, 
The    Lord  at    firft  will    them   deride  ; 

5  In   anger   then  to   them    He'll   fpeak, 
In  wrath  to   vex    them    in   their    pride ; 

6  "  See    I  have   fet  my    king  upon 
"   Zion    my    mount   of  fanclity,* 

*2  "  And   the    immutable    decree 
"  Proclaim   abroad  to  all   will  I." 

3  The   LORD  to  me  faid,  «  Thou  my  Son, 

"  This   day   have    I    begotten    thee  ; 

"  Afk,    and  the  nations    I  will    give 

"  For   thine  inheritance  to   be  : 

9  "  And    of  the  earth  Thou  fhalt  pofTefs 

"  ^he   utmoft   coafts    and   lands    abroad  ; 

lt  Thy    foes   fhalt   break  as  potters   ware, 

"  And  crufn    as    with  an  iron    rod." 

to  Now  therefore,  O  ye  kings,   be   wife  ; 

Be  learn'd,    ye  who  earth'a  judges   are  ; 
i  1   Serve  ye   the  LORD   with  reverence  ; 

Rejoice,    but    yet    with    trembling    fear  : 
iz  Kifs  |j  ye  the  Son,   left   He   be   wroth, 

And   ye   mould  perifh   in   your  way  ; 
'     When   once  his  wrath   a    little    burns, 

BlefTed  are  ail  that  on   him  flay. 

P  S  A  L  M  IIL     A  VfaJm  of  David  : 
When  ke  jisd  from  the  Facj  <j/*Abfalom  bis  Son* 

1  T"     ORD,    how   my    troubles    multiply  ? 
JL— i   How  many  up    againfl    me  rife  ? 

2  Of  my  fad  foul,    how    many    fay, 

"   His    GOD    to   him   no  help   fupplies." 
0   Yet  Thou,   O   LORD,    my   glory   art, 

My  fhield,    and  raifeft   up    my    head. 
>.  f    to    JEHOVAH   cry'd,   who  from 

His  holy  hill   me   anfwered.     fSe/j/.J 

si 

$  I  ?.  Kneel   ari  kifs  his  Hard  in  r:>k(rn  of  oorC'j'A  and  Litirs 


PSA.L  M    IV.  § 

r  I  lay  down,   flept,   ar-d   then   awak'd  ; 
For   up  JEHOVAH   did    me    bear  : 

6  Tho'  people   round  againft   me   let, 
Ten   thousands   of  them   til    not  fesx. 

7  O   LORD  my  God,   to   fave   me    rife  \ 
For  all    my    foes   have    felt   thy   ftreke 
Upon    their    faces,    and    the    teeth 

Of  the  ungodly  Thcu    haft   brcke. 

8  Salvation   wholly  to    the    LORD, 
Does    and    mall    ever    appertain  ;. 
And   on   thy  people   evermore    . 
Thy    blefling   does    and    mall    remans, 

PSALM  IV.     A  Pfahi  of  David. 

r   f~^  OD  of  my    rightcoufnefs   to    me, 
\JX      while   calling,  *  bend  thine  ear  : 
Thou    hail  enlarg'd  me    when    diftreiYd  ; 
me    pity  ;    hear   my    pray'r. 
2  Ye    fons  of   men,   how  long    will    ye 
my    glory    villify  ? 
How    long    love    vanity   will    ye  ? 

and  how    long   feek    a   lie,     ( ' Selah. ) 

3.  But  know,   the  LORD  hath   fet  apart 
the    pious   for    his    own  : 
The  Lord  will    hear    me  when    to   him 
I    make    my    humble    moan. 

4  Stand    ye   in    awe,    and    fin  no   more  ; 

confider    ferioufly, 
Within   your  hearts    with   iilence   dee*?,. 
a3    on    your    beds    ye    lie. 

5  The  facriiice  of  righteonfr.efs 

let  freely  off'red    be  ; 
And   therewith    place  your  confidence 
upon   the  LORD    do   ye, 

6  While   multitudes   enquiring  are, 

who'll   caufe   us   good  to  fee  ? 
The  light,   LORD,   of  thy  countenance 
let  on  us  lifted   be. 

B  3  7  The" 


6  P  S  A  L  M    V. 

7  Thou  giv'ft  *  more  gladnefs  in  my  heart 
than    their's    in    times  wherein 
Their   harveft-com   and   their   new   winey 
have   much   increafed   been. 
$  In  'peace   with    Him  I   will    lie    down, 
and    I    my   fleep   will    take  ; 
For  me  m   confidence   to   dwell, 
Thou,  LORD,   alone   doit  make* 

P  S  A  L  M  V.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 

i   TEHOVAH,   to   my   words  give   ear ; 

J  'My    folemn    meditation    weigh  : 
a  O  hear  my  cry,   my  king,   my  God, 

For  I  to  Thee  alone,    will    pray. 

3  In   early   morning   Thou   my   voice 
Wilt,   O   JEHOVAH   kindly   hear  ; 
For  in  the   morning  PJ1   look   up, 
.And  wijl  to  thee   direel    my  pray'r. 

4  For  Thou  art  not  a  God  who  doft 
Allow   the   leaft    iniquity  ; 

Neither  mall    evil   dwell    with  Thee ; 
Nor  fools  fhal!  ftand   before  thine  eye* 

5  Thou    all   ill   doers   doft  abhor  ; 
Wilt  them    deftrov   who   utter  lies  : 

6  JEHOVAH   loatbs  the  bloody  man, 
And  thofe  who  fraudful  arts  devife. 

7  But   in    thy   many   mercies    now 
Enter  into    thy   houfe    will    I, 

And   in   thy   fear   will    bow  my   felf 
Before  thy   houfe    of  fanclity. 

8  Becaufe   of  my   obferving  foes, 
LORD   lead   me   in   thy  righteoufnefs  ; 
Direct   me  in  thy   perfect   way, 

And   make   it   plain   before   my  face. 

9  For   in  their   mouth  there   is  no  truth  ; 
Their  heart  full   of  iniquities  ; 

An   open    fepulchre  their   throat  ; 
Their  tongue  is  mov'd  with  flatteries. 


PSALM    VL  7 

!0  O  GOD,    Thou  wilt  them  quite  deftroy, 
By  their  own   counfels  make  them  fall, 
And   in  their  many  *  Sins   caft  out ; 
For  they  to  thee   are  rebels   all. 

ii  But  let  all  thofe  who  truft  in   Thee, 
For   ever  fhout   with  joyful   noife, 
For  thou  defendeft  them  ;   and  thofe 
Who  love   thy  name,   in  Thee  rejoice. 

12  For  to  the  righteous,   Thou,   O  LORD, 
Wilt  caufe  thy   bleffing  to   extend ; 
As  with    a  fhield,   thy  favour,   them 
Wilt   crown  and   round   about  defend. 

P  S  ALM  VI.     A  Pfalm  of  David, 
3    /"\   LORD,   rebuke    me   not   in  wrath, 

\J  Nor   in    thine   anger   cbaften   me  : 
a  LORD,  pity  ;    I  am  weak  :   Lord  heal ; 

My    bones    are   vex'd   exceedingly. 

3  My  foul  is    alfo  in    diftrefs  : 

How  long  delay,   LORD,  wilt  Thou  mafce  } 

4  Return,    O  LORD    ;  my   foul  relieve  ; 
O   fave   me   for  thy   mercies   fake. 

5  Shall  the  dead  praife  Thee  in  the  grave  ? 
Of  Thee  no  memVy  there  have  they. 

6  I'm   tir'd  with  groans  :   by  night  my  bed 
With  tears  fwims,   and  my   couch  by  day. 

7  Mine  eye   confum'd   with   grief  grows    old^, 
Becaufe  of  all  mine    enemies  : 

8  But   now   depart   away   from  me, 
All  ye   who    work   iniquities  ; 

Becaufe   JEHOVAH   now  hath  heard 
The   voice   of  my   lamenting  tears  : 

9  The  LORD   hath  heard  my  humble  fuir, 
JEHOVAH  will  accept  my   pray'rs. 

2  0  Let  all   my  fees   be  put   to    mame, 
Aad  greatly  troubled  let  them    be. 
Yea  let  them' be  returned  back, 
And  made  afhamed  fpeedily. 

B  4  PSALM 


3  P  S  A  L  M    VII. 

PSALM  VII.    A  Pfalm  f  of  David,  wJ/VJ  hi 
fang  to  the  Lord  concerning  Cum  the  Btnjamite. 

1  S^  LORD  my  God,   I  wholly  place 
\J     my    confidence    in    Thee  j 
From   all    my    perfecuting   foes,  ~ 

fave    and   deliver   me. 

2  Lett  like   to   rending  lions    they 

my    foul    in    pieces    tear  ; 
A  r  i   when   they  tear,    to   refcue   me 
there   mould  not   one    appear. 

3  O  thou  JEHOVAH,   O  my  God, 

if   this    thing    done    have    I  ; 
If  in   thefe   hands  of  mine    there    be 
wrongful    iniquity  ; 

4  If  I  have  rendred  ill    to   him 

;    was   at  peace    with    mc  ; 
•     ea    inther   I    releafed   have 
toy    caufelefs    enemy  ;) 

5  Thcrj   let   the    foe    purfue    my   foul, 

and  feize    it    as    a    prey  ; 
Let    him  my    life    tread    to   the   earth, 
in    duft  my   honour   Jay.      (Selah.) 

6  LORD,  rife  in  wrath  ;    lift  up  thy   fclf ; 

my    raging    fees    witbftand  ; 
Wuke   for  me    to    the  judgment   thou 
doft   rightfully    command. 

7  So   the   great  congregation  mall 

enebmpafs    thee   with    joy  ; 

O    therefore   for   their  fa^e   return, 

to    thy   bright    feat  on   high. 

8  The  LORD  will  ail   the   people  judge  : 
'    JEHOVAH   judge    thou    me 

According   to    my    righteoufneis,  j| 
and    mine    integrity. 

[  2  Part.  3 
•f-  So  the  Septuagint. 

[j  i.  t.    The   Righteoufnefs   c(  his   Caufe  and   Condufi,    with 
refpeft  to  his  Neighbour, 


PSALM    VIII.  p 

[  2   Part.  ] 

g  Let  end   the   wicked's   wickednefs, 

bat   the  juft  ratify, 
Becaufe  O  thou  the  righteous  GOD, 
the   hearts   and   reins   doft  try. 
io  In  GOD  is  my  defence,   who  faves 
the   right   in   heart   and  way  : 

11  But  GOD   the  righteous  judge  is  wroth> 

with   dnners   ev'ry   day. 

12  Unlefs   that   turning   they  repent, 

his   fword  he   iharp   will   whet:' 
Yea  has   already  bent   his    bowr 
and  has   it  ready  fet. 

13  Againft   the   perfecutors   made 

his  arrows   ready  hath  ; 
He   ready  has   prepared   for  them 
the  inflruments   of  death. 

14  Behold    they   travail   as  in   birth 

with    vain   iniquity  : 
Behold  how  mifchief  they  conceive, 

and   then   bring  forth   a  lie. 
i£  He  dig  d  a  pit,   and  dig'd  it   deep> 

the   innocent   to   take  ; 
But   he   is   falFn   into   the   pit, 

which   he  himfelf  did  make, 

16  Return  on  his   mifchievous  head 

his   mifchief  furely   fhall  ; 

And  on  his  crown,  his  violence  * 

in    righteoufnefs   fhall    fall. 

17  According  to   his  righteoufnefs, 

JEHOVAH    praife   will  I  ; 
And  to   his  name   a  pfalm  I'll  Cmg3. 
who    is  the   LORD   moft  high. 
PSALM  VIII.     A  Pfalm  of  David, 
*  f\.  LORD,    our   Lord,   in  all  the  earth 
K^r     how  does  thy  name  excel  ! 
Who  high   above  the  heav'ns   haft  jfet 
thy   majeity  f  -  to  dwell. 

B  5  2  From 

t  The  Hebrew  ilgnifles  both  Majefy,  Magnificence  and  Gkry ... 


to  P  S  A  L  M    IX. 

2  From  mouths  of  babes   and  fucklings  thou 

dofl  pow'r   and   praife   ordain  ; 
That  thou  may'ft  ltill  thine  enemies, 
and  fpiteful   foes   reftrain. 

3  When  I  thy  glorious  heav'n9  behold, 

thy  fingers    work  divine, 
The  moon   and  fears   which  thou  haft  fet 
in   order   as   they   mine  ; 

4  O  what  is  wretched  man  *  that  thou 

fhould'ft  have   him   in   thy   mind, 
And  Adam's  fon,  *  that   thou  fhould'ft  be 
to  vifit   him   fo   kind  ? 

5  For  than  the   Angels  thou  haft  hin> 

but   little  lower  made  ; 
With  glory  and   with  majefty 

thou   crowned  haft  his  head. 
4  To  Him  dominion  Thou  haft  giv'n 

over   thy   works   below  ; 
Under  his  feet  haft   put   them  all, 

to   him  haft   made  them   bow. 

7  Both   all  the  tamer  flocks   and   herds,. 

wild   beafts   that    range    more   free, 
$  Swift  ra   the   air    the   fowls  that  fly, 

and   fifties  of  the   fea. 
p  Yea   thofe  that  make  great  paths   along. 

the   fea,   and   pafs   the   fame.  % 
O  LORD,   our  Lord,  in   all   the  earth, 

how  excellent   thy  name  ! 

P  S  4  L  M  IX.     A  Pfalm   ef  David. 
j  T     ORD  I'll  Thee  praife  with  all  my  heart, 

j   j     thy   wonders  all    proclaim. 
3  O  Thou  moft  high,  in  Thee  I'll  joy, 
exult,   and  £ng.  thy   name. 

3  M3T 
t  T«  «he  Cbsldee  h  i3  with  gteat  Beauty  and  Propriety  explained 

*  Thus Ar.dthe  Leviathans,  i.  e.  Whales  and  Crocodiles;  who 

t*/fing  thro' the  Seas,  nukr  great  Paths.  >afs  thro"  them,  and 
leave  them  /hining  alon*  behind  them  3  alluding  to  tbofe  fyia 
*ad  note  Pafofcw  in  W  **>♦  lh  3* 


PSALM    IX.  » 

3  My  foes  in  turning  backward  fall, 

and  perifh  at  thy  fight  ; 
For   thou  maintained  my  juft  caufe, 
enthron'd   thou  judgeft   right. 

4  The  heathen  thou  rebuked  haft, 

the   wicked   overthrown  -r 

5  Thou  blotteft  out  their  name,  that  thej 

may  never  more   be   known. 

6  Thy  defolations,   O   thou   foe, 

are   ended    utterly  ; 
Who  many   cities   haft   deftroy'd9 
and  made  their  mem'ry  die, 

7  But  now  JEHOVAH   ever   mail 

endure  and  ever  reign  ; 
His    throne   He  hath  eftablifhedp 
juft  judgment   to    maintain. 

8  Yea,  he   the  univerfal  world 

mall  judge  in   righteoufnefs  ; 
And  to  all  people  f  judgment  givs 
in   perfed  J  uprightnefs. 

9  A  refuge  high  *  for  the  opprefs'd 

JEHOVAH  will   become  ; 
He  is  to   them  a  refuge  fafe 

in   feafons   troublefome. 
2Q  And  they  who  duly  know-  thy  namea 

in   Thee   their   truft  will  place ; 
Beeaufe  Thou,  LORD,  haft  never  left 

the:  feekers  of  thy   face. 

II  O  ling   ye   praifes  to   the    LORD* 
who   does   in    Zion   dwell  ; 
His   wondrous   doings  all   abroad 
among  his  people  tell; 
t2  For  when   he  after   blood  enquires^ 
he   minds   them   carefully  : 
Of  thofe  who  meek  and  humble  are- 
he.  ne'r  forgets  the  cry. 

[>  Part] 

•fc  Hebu — People— m  the  Plural  Number :  i.  e*  a U  People*   j 
J  *l^-—Upngbtnetf(i  is  tbc  Plural  Number,    i,  e,   Perfetl 
U$rtgbtntftt. 


la  PSALM    IX. 

[  2   Part.  ] 

1 3  LORD,  pity   me,   and  weigh  my  grief, 
which   I   from    foes    fuftain  ; 
And   from   the  op'ning   gates   of  death 
O  raife   me   up  again. 
24  That  I   in  Zion's  daughter's  gates 
may  mew  forth   all   thy  praife  : 
And  my  triumphant  fhouts  of  joy 
in   thy   falvation,    raife. 

^5  The  heathen   people   are   fi*nk  down 
into  the   pit   they  made  ; 
Their  foot   is  taken  in   the   net 
which  fecretly   they    laid. 

16  By  judgments  which  He  executes 

more  known   JEHOVAH  is  ; 
111   men   are   caught   in   their   own   fnarts  ; 
deeply   confide r  this.  |)     (Sclah.) 

17  Thofe  who  continue  wicked,  mall 

be  turned  down  to   hell  ; 
Where   all   the  nations  of  the   earth 

who  GOD  forget,   mall  dwelL 
1$  Thy  needy,   tho'    diftrefs'd  a  while, 

mall    never   be   forgot  ; 
The   expectations   of  thy   poor, 

defer'd,  yet  perifh  not* 

39  O  let  not  wretched  man  *  prevail  ; 
but   O   JEHOVAH   rife  j 
The   heathen   people  in    thy  light 
let    judged    be  likewife. 
10  O  thou   JEHOVAH,  ftrike  them  all 
with   trembling   fear  ;    and    then 
Thou   wilt   the  natians  make  to   know, 

thay  are  but  wretched  men.  *     (Se/ahJ 

PSALM 

I  This  Vm  is  the  MtaniAf  of  the  Word— #/#*«*» 


PSALM    X  13 

PSALM    H. 

1  TTTHerefore  JEHOVAH  fhndeft  thou 

VV      away  from  us   fo  far  ? 
And  wherefore  hideft  thou  thy  felf 
when  times  fo  troublous  are  ? 

2  Becaufe  the  wicked  in   their    pride 

the  needy  make  a  prey^ 
They  mall  be  taken  in   the  plots 
which  they  for   others   lay. 

3  The  wicked  in  their  heart's  deiire 

do  glory  ;  and  they   praife 
The  worldly  man   as  bleft  ;  but  they 
JEHOVAH's  anget  raife. 

4  The  wicked  thro1  their  lofty  pride 

on  God   refufe  to   call ; 
And   in   their   multitude   of  thoughts 
there  is  no   GOD  at  all. 

5  Their  ways  at  all  times  grievous  are? 

thy  judgments  are  on   high 
Above   their   light :  at   all  their   foes 
they  blow  difdainfully. 

6  Within   their   heart  they  vainly  fay* 

*'  we  mov'd  mall  never   be, 
**  Nor  yet  in  any  time  to  come 
"  adverfity   (hall   fee." 

7  His  mouth  with   curling  filled  is,. 

with  wiles*v  deceit   and  wrongs 
And  mifchief  and   iniquity 

lie  hid  beneath  his    tongue^ 
%  la   coverts   near   the  villages 

they  fit ;  the  harmless  flay ; 
And  for  the   poor  who  pafs  along 

with  hidden   eyes  they  lay, 

9  As  lions   in   their   coverts  watch, 
the  feeble  to  furprife  5 
As  fowlers   draw   them  in  their  net, 
and  oa  a  fuddea  feize. 

10  At 


»4  P  S  A  L  M    X. 

10  As  maim'd*  and   crouching  they   will  feera  ; 
that  numbers   of  the  poor 
At  unawares   may  fall  into 
their  paws   of  cruel  power. 

ii  In  heart  they  fay,  "  God  has  forgot 
"  thefe  things  eternally  ;     , 
"  He  wholly  hides  his  face  away, 
"  and  them  will  never  fee." 

[  2  Part.  ] 

12  JEHOVAH  rife  thou  up;  O  God, 
lift   up  thine  hand  on   high  ; 
Call  not  the   meek  afflicted  ones 
out  of  thy   memory. 
*3  O   why  do  wicked   men  provoke 
the   mighty  GOD,  and  fay 
Prefumptuoully   within  their  heart, 
'  Thou   never  wilt  repay.' 

14  But  fpite  and  mifchief  thou  doft  fee  5 

thy  hand   will  them   reward  : 
The   poor   commits   himfelf  to   Thee;. 
Thou   art    the   orphan's  guard. 

15  The  wicked's   arm  wilt  wholly  breaks 

and   of  the   evil  one  ; 
And  fearch  out  his  impieties 
until  thou   findefl  none ; 

16  JEHOVAH  King  of  ages*  is 

and   of  eternity  :.* 
Out  of  his  land  the   heathen  tribes 
are   perifh'd    utterly. 

17  The   meek,   afflicted   ones    defire- 

JEHOVAH  thou  doft  hear; 
Thou  doft  prepare  their   heart,   *fid   thejl 
give  thine  attentive  car. 

i*  To 


PSALM    XL  ?l 

1 8  To  judge  and  help  the  fatherlefs, 
the  feeble   and   the    poor  ; 
That  earthly  men  may  not   deftroy  $ 
nor  vex  them  any  more. 

PSALM    XL 

i  T   In  JEHOVAH  place  my  truft: 
X     why  therefore  fay  do  ye 
To  my  poor  foul,  "like  frighted  birds 
"  to   your   high  '  mountain   flee." 
%  For  lo,  the  wicked  bend  their  bows* 
and  on  the  firing  prepare, 
Their  arrows   in  the   dark  to  moot 
at  thole  who   upright  arc- 

3  But   if  the   great  foundations  of 

our  Hate  they  overthrow ; 
[Which   are   thy  facred   /anus   and  truths  ;  J 
what  (hall   the  righteous  do  l 

4  JEHOVAH'S  in  his   holy  place,  f 

and  in  the  heav'ns*  on  high 
JEHOVAH's  throne  :  his  eyes  obfcrve^ 
men's  fons   his   eye-lids   try. 

5  The  men   who  truly  righteous  are 

JEHOVAH  does   approve: 
His  foul    the  wicked  hates,  and   then* 
who  violence   do   love. 

6  Snares,   fire  and    brimftone,  dreadful  ftQTim?, 

on  finners  He  will  rain  : 
This  is   the   portion   of  the   cup 
He   does   for    them  ordain. 

7  Becaufe  the  LORD,  who  righteous  is*. 

all  right'oufnefs  does  love  y 
His   countenance   the  upright  one,, 

beholding   does   approve.  PSALM" 

J  So  the  Syriack.  renders  it  ;  the.  Cbaldee- — break  ;  the  Englifil 
— opfrefi  ;  Buxtorf — violently  ufe  r  and  the  Hebrew  may 
ceon-rehend  them  all. 

•f  Heb  Falirce  ;-.  a*  in  PfaL  xlr.  g.  cxliv.  12.  Prev.  xxx.  28.. 
and  by  a  Figure — 1e*r.fle>    both  on  Earth  sod  in.  Heavsn^ 

*  Hcb, — not  Sky,  but  Heavem 


\6         PSALM    XII.  XIII. 

PSALM    XIL    A  Pfalm  of  David, 
i  TTELP,  O  JEHOVAH   now,  becaufr 
JT1     the  godly  man    doth   ceafe, 
And  from  among  the  fons  of  men 
the  faithful   men  decrease. 

2-  The  moft,  now,  to   their  neighbours  fpeak 
deceitful   vanities  ; 
With  flatt'ring  lips    they  fmoothly  fpeak, 
with   double   hearts    and  lies/ 

3  But  every '  flatt'ring  lip   the  LORD 

will   cut   off  certainly  ; 
And   all  proud   tongues   that  utter  forth 
words  boafting,  great  and  high  : 

4  Who  thus  declare,   •  We  with  our  tongues 

*  prevailing   pow'r  will  gain  : 
•  Are   not  our '  lips  our  own  ?  and  who 
'  Lord  \   over  us   mail   reign  ?  ' 

5  For  poor  opprefs'd   and  needy  fighs, 

the  LORD   fays,   now   I'll   rife,. 
And  them  in   fafety  I   will  'fet 
from  th'ofe  who  them  defpife. 

6  JEHOVAH's  words  are  words  moft  pure* 

they  are  as   filver  try'd 
In   earthen   furnaces   o'er   fire, 

and  fev'n  times  purify'd. 
1  JEHOVAH,  thou  wilt  fafely  keen 

the  upright-hearted  poor, 
And  from  this  generation  them- 

preferve  for   evermore; 

I  Tho'  wicked   walk  on  every  fide, 
grow    bold    and    multiply  • 
And  vile  ones  by  the  fons  of  men 
exalted  be   on   high. 

PSALM    XIII. 
>  TTOW   long  wilt  thou  forget  me,  LORD? 
X~l~    fhall   it  for   ever  be  ? 
Jjow  long   wilt  thou  fo  fadly  hide, 
thy  face  away  from  me?  z  How 


PSALM    XIV.  17 

2  How  long  within  my  foul   confult, 

and    grieve    in    heart  fhall    I  ? 
How   long   exalted   over    me 
mall   be  my  enemy  ? 

3  O  LORD   my  God,  confider   me 

and  anfwer  to  me  make"; 
Mine  eyes   enlighten,  left  the  fleep 
of  death   me    overtake. 

4  Left  my  proud  foes  in  boafting  fay, 

againft  him   we  prevail  ; 
Left  thofe   who   trouble  me  rejoice, 
to  fee   me   wholly  fail. 

5  But  as  1  fet  my  confidence 

upon  thy  bounteous   grace  ; 

My  heart   in  thy   falvation   fhall 

rejoice    with  thankful    piraife. 

6  Yea  to   JEHOVAH  fongs   of  praife 

1*11   fing    melodioufly  ; 
Who  in   his  kifidnefs  deals    with  me 
exceeding  ..bounteoufly. 

PSALM    XIV.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 

1  UOOLS  in  their  hearts  fay,  there's  no ■  GO'Dj 
JL        and   fo  corrupt   they  grow, 
Abominable    fms    commit, 

and  nothing    good   they  do. 

2  From  heav'n  JEHOVAH  looked  dow» 

on  fons  of  men,   to  fee 
If  any  who  do   underftand, 
or  feek  to  GOD  there  be. 

3  They  altogether   filthy  are  ; 

they  all   are    backward*   gone  ; 
There  are  not  any  that   do  good, 

no    verily,    not   one. 
4.  The  workers  of  iniquity, 

do   they   not,  know   at   all  ? 
That  they   my  people  eat   as    btead, 

nor  on   the  LORD   will  call.  |  Yet 

*  Hebrew  and  Cbaldee, 


18  P  S  A  L  M    XV. 

5  Yet   they  (hall  with   a   grievous  fear 

appalled   greatly   be, 
When  GOD  among  the  righteous  race 
they    once  mail    come  to   fee. 

6  The  counfel  of  the   poor   opprefs'd, 

ye  mock'd   and-try'd  to   fhame  ; 
Becaufe  the  LORD   their  refuge  j|  is, 
and  they  hope  ||  in  his   name. 

7  Who  will  from  Zion  Ifr'el    fave  ?* 

when   back  the  LORD   (hall   bring 
His  captives ;  Jacob   will    rejoice, 
and   Ifr'el   gladly   fing. 

PSALM    XV.     A  Pjalm.  of  David. 

1  T       ORD,   in    thy   tabernacle,   who 
I    J     a   fojourner   mail   be  ? 

And  who   is  he  inhabit    mail 
thy   mount*   of  fan&ity*  ? 

2  Who    walks   in   his    integrity, 

who    acls  in   righteoufnefs  ; 
And    who   the  trnth   within   his   heart 
does   uprightly   exprefs. 

3  Who  with   his  tongue  will  not  backbite^ 

nor  do  bis   neighbour  hurt ; 
Nor   yet   againft    his  neighbour   will 
take  up  an    ill    report. 

4  Whofe  eyes  the  vile,  tho'  great,  contemn  ; 

but  all    the    LORD   who   fear, 
He   honours  ;  and  he  changes  not, 
tho'  to   his  hurt  he  fwear . 

3  Who  to   opprefling   ufury, 
his   money  hath    not  lent ; 
Who   takes  not    a   reward   or  bribe 
againft   the   innocent. 

6  Who 

j}  Cccceiut,  Gejer,  and  the  Evglijb,  tranflate  it  Refuge  j  the 
Syriack  with  Pijcator  and  Cajlalio— Trust  }  all  the  othar 
nci<nt  yerjions,  with  Montanut  and  Af«/i— HofE  :  and  the 
aebrno  fcems  to  comprehend  thorn  all. 


PSALM    XV.  XVI.         iji 

«5  Who  conftantly  obferves   thefe   things, 
is    gracioufly  approv'd, 
He's  furely   in   a  happy  ftate, 
and  never  mall  be    mov'd. 

[  Long  Metre  ]    % 

i  T     ORD,  in  thy  tabernacle  who 

,1  J  Wilt  thou  with  welcome   entertain  ? 
Who  on  thy   mount  of  fanftity,* 
A  conftant  dweller  fhall  remain  ? 

2  Who  walks   in  his   integrity, 
Who  always   acls  in    righteoufnefs, 
And   what   is   in   his  honeft  heart 
Does  truly  with  his  mouth  exprefs. 

3  Who  with   his  tongue  will  not  backbite, 
Nor  do  his  neighbour  any  wrong, 
Nor  takes  up  a  reproach  to  hurt 

His  neighbour  from  another's  tongue. 

4  Whofe  eyes  the  vile,  tho'  great,  contemn, 
But  honours  all  who  fear  the  LORD  : 
Who  fwears  the  truth,    tho'  to  his  hurt  y 
And  changes  not,  but  keeps  his  word. 

5  Who  to  oppreffing  ufury 

Hath   not   for  gain  his  money  lent ; 
Who  takes  not  a  reward  or  bribe 
To  wrong  a  perfon  innocent:. 

6  Who  constantly  obferves  thefe  things. 
And   does    all   in    fincerity ; 

Is   furely  in    a  happy   ftate, 
And  he  fhall  never  moved  be. 

PSALM'  XVL 

Miclam,  or  a  golden   Pfalm  of  David. 

i  f^i  Mighty  God,   prefer  ve  thou  me ; 

\^J     for  upon   thee  I  reft. 
2  «•  Thou  art  my  Lord?  thou  O  my  foul, 
haft  to  the  LORD  profefs'd. 

3  My 

%  Chiefly  from  Ur,Ford;  but  nearer  the  Original* 


19  P  SA'LM    XVI. 

3  My  goodnefs  reaches  not  to  thee  ; 
but   to    the    faints,   th'  upright 
On   earth   who  are    the    excellent, 
in  whom  is    my  delight. 

4.  Who  haft'n  a  ftrange  one*   to  adore, 
their  for  rows   mall  abound  ; 
Their  blood-drink-off  rings   I'll  not   pour,, 
nor   names   my  lips  mall    found. 

5  The   LORD   the    only   portion   is 

ot    mine    inheritance  ; 
And   of  my  cup  ;  and  of  my  lot 
fecures  the   maintenance. 

6  The  lines  that  fallen  are  to  me, 

in  pleafant   plrces  are  ; 
And   goodly  is   the  heritage 
allotted  "to  rov  fhare. 

7  I   will   JEHOVAH   humbly  blefs, 

who    counfeh    me    aright, 
So  that   my  reins    do   me  "inflrnci 
in    feafons   of  the   night. 

8  Before  me  I  the   LORD  have  fst 

as    prefent    evermore  : 
Becaufe  he   is    at  my  right  hand, 
I   mall    not    Aide    therefore. 
y  Therefore    my   heart    rejoices   much, 
my    glory's    glad   withal  ; 
Moreover   alio    dwell   in    hope  J 
my   flefh    fecurely  j|    mall  : 

xo  Becaufe  thou   wilt  not   leave   my   foul 
in    death's    eflate    to    be  ; 
Nor  fuffer   wilt    thine    holy    One  J 
corruption    there   to    fee. 
jz   Thou    wilt    me  (hew  the  path   of  life, 
which    to  thy   prefence   goes  ; 
Where  joy  in   fulnefs  is,    and  where 

pure   pleafure   ever   flows.  PSjILM 

•  i.e.*  ftrange  Lord.     ||  The  Hebrew  feems  to  fignify  Both. 
J  i.e.  Christ:    as  t!»e  Apoftles   Pttat  and  Faul    explain   it, 
AEli  ii.  3«.  xiii.  35—37* 


PSALM    XVXI.  21 

PSALM    XVII.     J  PfihrcfDzvid. 

i    TEHOVAH   hearken  to  the  right, 
j      attend    to    ray.  loud    cry  ; 
And  hear  my   pray'r   that   cometh   forth 
from    lips    that  do   not    lie. 

2  O   from  thy  prefence  let  there  come 

a  juft    decree    to    rne  : 
And   let  thy   juft  and   holy  eyes, 
things    that    are   equal   fee. 

3  My  Heart   thou  fearched    hail  by   day, 

and   vifited    by    nigh  t : 
Thou  haft  me   in   a   furnace  try'd, 

and  found   my   heart    is   right. 
As    for  my  Mouth  ;    as   I  refolv'd 

my    words   mould   not    tranfgrefs, 
Thy  righteous,  laws  which  guide   the  tongue; 

I  -kept    my   purpofes. 

4  And   as  for  Works  of  men  ;  thy   word 

hath   me  directed  fo, 
That  I  obferv'd  and  fhun'd  the  paths 
wherein    deftroyers    go. 

5  My    goings  in   thy    beaten    paths 

do   thcu  uphold   and  guide  ; 
That  fo  my  footfteps  thus    fecur'd 
may  never  turn  afide, 

6  On  Thee  I  called  have,  O  Ged} 

becaufe  Thou  wilt  rne  hear  ; 

.0   now    incline  thine  ear  to  me., 

and  hear  my  humble  pray'r. 

[  2   Part,  ] 

7  O  fhew  thy   wondrous  grace   to  them 

whofe   truft   on    thee    relies  ; 
Who  fav'ft   by  thy  right  hand  from  thofe 
who  up  againil  them  rife. 

8  0 


22  PSALM    XVII. 

8  0  keep  me  now  as  thou  would'fl  keep 

the  apple  of  thine  eye  ; 
Under  the  fhadow  of  thy  wings 
hide  me  continually. 

9  From  all  the  threat'ning  faces  of 

the  wicked  who  me  wafte, 
And  from  my  deadly   enemies, 
who   me  around  invert. 

10  In  their   grofs  fat  they  are  enclos'd, 

beaft  with  their  mouths  likewife  ; 

1 1  In  all   our.  fteps    they  compafs  us  ; 

to  earth   they  bow  their  eyes. 

22  They  like  a  roaring  lion  are, 
who  greedy   is  for  prey  ; 
Like  a  young  lion  watching  in 
his  fecret  place,  are   they. 

13  But^LORD   arife,  his  face  prevent; 

O  make  him   down  to  bow  ; 
And  from  the   wicked  one,  thy  fword, 
my  foul    deliver  thou. 

14  From  mortal  f  men,  thy  hand,  O  LORD, 

from  mortal  men  |  me   fave, 
Who  in   this  tranfient   time  of  life 
their  only  portion  have. 

15  Thy  hidden  ftores  their   bellies  fill, 

and  filled   are   their   fons  ; 
And  all  the  reft  they  fave  and  leave 
to  their  young  little  ones. 

16  But   I  in  righteoufnefs   thy  face 

with  joy  mail  clearly  fee  ; 
And  waking  with  thine  image,  I 
fhall   fatisfied    be. 

PSALM 

J  The  HebrewWoti  being  derived  from  another  which  fignifies 
Death,  I  apprehend  it  may  imply  Men  who  are  not  only 
ti%rtal  tbemjelvet,  but  alfo  bring  Death  on  others* 


PSALM    XVIII.  23 

PSALM    XVIIL 

A  Pfalm  o/David,  the  Servant  ef  the  Lord  ;  <whi 
[pake  to  the  Lord  the  Words  of  this  Song  in  the 
Day  that  theho&D  delivered  him  from  all  his  Ene- 
piies,  and  from  the  Hand  of 'Saul  ;  and  be  faid  ; 

j   T      ORD  thee   my  ftrength  I'll   dearly   love  : 

2  I    J  The  LORD'S  my  rock  f  and  refuge  fure, 
My   fortrefs,  faviour,   God  and  fhield, 

My  rock,  J   on  whom  I  reft  fecure  ; 
My  horn   of  fafety,  }|   my   high   tow'r  : 

3  JEHOVAH  I  will  call  on  Thee 
Who  worthy  to  be  praifed  art  ; 
So  from  my  foes  fav*d  I  mall  be. 

4  Amazing   forrows  feiz'd   my  foul, 
While  death  its   cords*   around  me  laid  ; 
As  when  impetuous    torrents  roll 
Ungodly  men  my  foul  difmay'd. 

5  The  cords  of  hell    encompafs'd  me, 
And  death  it's  fnares  around  me  drewdk 
They  feiz'd   and   caught  me   unawares,  " 
E'er  I  th'  approaching   danger  knew.* 

6  Diftrefs'd,  I  called   on  the   LORD, 
Cry'd  to  my  God,  and  He  did  hear  ; 
He  from   his   temple  heard   my  voice, 
My  cry  receiv'd    into   his    ear. 

7  And  then  the  earth    affrighted  fhook, 
The  utmoft  trembling  on  it    feiz'd  : 
The  mountains  their   foundations   mov'd, 
Becaufe    they   faw   him    high    difpleas'd. 

8  Smoke  from  his  noflrils  there  arofe  ; 
And    fire  devouring  dreadfully 
Forth    from    his    mouth  there"  ifTued  ; 
Bright  coals   enkindled  were  thereby. 

9  The  heav'ns  aloft  He  made  to  bow, 
Defcendir.g    in    a  martial   form ; 

.'.rid   all    beneath    his    feet    appear'd 
Thick  darknefs,  and  a  gath'ring  Horm. 

10  He 

■f-  f.  e.  my  High  Rock.     J  i.  e.  my  Great  and  Firm  Rock. 
{]  The  Hebrew  fignifies  both  Safety  and  Salvation, 


M  PSALM    XVIII. 

xp  He   on   a   flying  cherub   rode, 
In    his    exalted    majefty : 
And   on    the   wings  of  fwifteft   winds, 

'     He   irrefutably  did  fly. 

11  He   darknefs  made  his  fecret  place: 
His    awful   covert  round  him  were 
Darknefs    of  waters   and  thick  clouds, 
Which  overfpread  the  gloomy  air. 

12  But    at  the  brightnefs    flaming  forth 
Before  him,  his  thick    clouds  confpire 
To   pafs   along,    and  caft  abroad 
Hail-flones,  and  burning  coals    of  fire. 

[   2   Part.   ] 

13  From   heavn  JEHOVAH    thundred   loud; 
The   highefl   gave  his   mighty    voice  ; 
Hail-ftones,   and    glowing  coals    of  fire 

He  call  with  dreadful  pow'r  and  noife. 

14  IjAarrows   forth  he  fent  abroad, 
\mich.   made   my    foes    diiperfe   and    fly ; 
His  light'nings  mot    and   mukiply'd,* 
Which   them  defeated  utterly. 

15  Then   were    the    waters  channels   feen, 
The  world's  foundations   op'ned   were, 
At  thy  rebuke   LORD,    at   the   blail 
Of  thy  difpleafure's  breath,  laid  bare. 

-16  From  heav'n  he  fent    and   on    me  feiz'd, 
And  from  the  mighty  waters  drew  ; 

17  He  iav'd  me   from   my  mighty  foes, 
Whofe  pow'r   too   mighty  for  me   grew. 

18  In    my   dark   day  they  me  furpriz'd  ; 
Yet  was   the  "LORD   a  ftay  to  me. 

19  Bccaufe  in   me  He  took   delight, 
He  hath  enlarg'd  and  fet  me  free. 

20  The  LORD  rewarded  my  pure  hands, 
And    recompenc'd   my   upright  heart  : 

21  For  I  did  keep  JEHOVAH's  ways, 
Nor  wickedly   my  God  defert. 

22  For 


PSALM    XVIII.  25 


22  For  all  his  laws  before  me  were, 
His  flatutes  from   me  put  not  I : 

23  Yea  I  before   hira  was  upright, 
And  kept  from    mine  iniquity. 

24  According  to  my   uprightnefs 
Therefore  the  Lord  rewarded  me  ; 
And  to    the    purenefs   of  my   hands, 
Which    his    all-viewing  eye   did  fee. 

[  3   &>**  ]  . 

25  Thou  gracious    to   the  gracious    art, 
To   upright  ones  wilt  upright  be  ; 

26  Pure   to  the    pure  ;  but   ftrive    with  thena 
Who  froward  are,  and  flrive   with  thee. 

27  For  thoU  wilt  the  afflicted  fave, 

And  high   looks   thou   wilt,  bring   down    low 

28  But   thou   wilt  light   my   lamp  ;  the  LORD 
My    God,   my  darknefs    mine  into. 

29  By  thee  with   dauntlefs    courage    flr'd, 
Embattled  troops   I  pierced    thro'  : 
And  by  my  God  aflifling  me, 
I   fcal'd  the    ramparts   of  my  foe. 

30  The  way  of  God   moil  perfect  is  ; 
JEHOVAH's   word  is   throughly   try'd  ; 
He   is   their  mield,  their  fure   defence. 
Who  fledfaftly   in  him   confide. 

31  For  who  is  God  except  the  LORD? 
Or    who  a  rock    our    God  befide  ? 

32  It's   God  who  girdeth  me  with   itrength, 
And    in   a   perfect  .way   does    guide : 

33  He    makes  my  feet  fwift   as   the   roe  ; 
On  my   high   places    makes  me  Hand  ; 

34  Mine  arms  can  break  the  brazen  bow,  f 
So    well   for  war  he  taught   my   hand.- 

35  The  ftiield  of  thy  falvation  Thou 
Bellowed  likewife  haft  on   me; 

And  thy  right  hand  hath   me   upheld  ; 
Thy  favour  made  me   great   to    be. 

C  [a/Wa] 

f  Heh  Sejbtuagint}Syriack}  rfrafa'ck,  Montanns^Ainfaorth,  &c 


*6  PSALM    XVIII. 

C  4  Part.   J 

36  My  fteps   Thou   mad'fl  both  large   and   fure, 
As  I   my  flying   foes  purfu'd: 

37  I  overtook    them  :   nor  did   turn, 
Till  I  had  wholly  them   fubdu'd. 

38  So  fatally  I  wounded  them, 

In  vain  they   try'd  their   heads    to  rear; 
And  all  bereav'd  of  ftrength  tkey  fell, 
Beneath  my  feet,  and  grovel'd  there. 

39  Thou    girdeft  me  with  fortitude 
To  battle  with  my    mighty   foes ; 
And   haft   fubdued   them    to   me 
Who  fiercely   up    againft   me   rofe. 

40  The    necks  of  all  mine  enemies, 
By  Thee  to  me  fubjecled  are  ; 
That  I  might  juftly    cut  them  off* 
Who   to  me    mortal  hatred  bear. 

4l^key  cry'd   and   call'd  out  earneftly  ; 
^pit  there  was  none  appear'd  to  fave  : 
Yea  even  to  the  LORD  himfelf ; 
But   He  to  them  no   anfwer   gave. 

42  Then   like  the  dull   driv'n   all   abroad, 
When    boiiVrous   winds   arife    and   blow, 
I  beat   them   fmall ;    and  as   the   dirt 
Into    the    flreet,   I  them   did  throw. 

43  From  all  the   people's   ftrivings  Thou 
Hail:  me    deliv'red    this,,  glad  day, 
And   of  the   nations  made  me  head  : 
People  unknown  fhall  me  obey. 

44  At  the  firft    hearing  they'll    fubmit  : 
Strangers    (hall   bow   themfelves   to   me  : 

45  The  lit  angers  fons   fhall   fade   away, 
And  from    their  coverts    frighted  be. 

[   5    P»rt.  ] 

46  Live  LORD,  and  let  my  rock  be  blefs'd  ; 
My    Saviour  God  f  exalted   be; 

47  God   who   avenges    me    and  who 

Brii-gs  down  the  people  under  me.  48  My 

f  Ucbievj,  God  of  my  Salvation, 


PSALM    XIX.  27 

48  My  faviour*  from  mine  enemies  : 
Yea  me  thou    haft   advanc'd  indeed 
Above  them    that.againft  me  rofe, 
And  from  the    vi'lent  man  me   freed. 

49  Therefore   among   the   nations,  LORD, 
To  Thee  my  thanks   I  will  proclaim  ; 
To  Thee,  victorious   loudly    will 

Sing   forth  the   praifes  of  thy   name. 

50  He  great   deliverance  gives  his  king, 
*\nd  boundlefs    favour   has   in    ftore, 

^or  his  Messiah,  J    David   fure, 
And  for    his    Seed  |j  for  evermore. 

PSALM    XIX. 

1  r  I  ^HE  heav'ns   on  high   abroad  declare 

1         the   majefty  of  God  ; 
And   forth   the  firmament   doth  fhow,  J^ 
his   handy   work   abroad. 

2  Day  fpeaks    to  day,  and   night  to  night, 

the   knowledge   hath    declar'd. 

3  There   neither  fpeech  nor   language   is  . , 

where  their   voice   is  not  heard. 

4  Their  line  thro'  all  the  earth  is  gone; 

and  to  the   utmoft  end 
Of  all   the  world,  their  founding   words 
their  clear  instruction    fend. 

5  In   them   a  vaft   pavilion   he 

hath  fpread   around  the  fun  ; 
A   bridegroom  from  his  chamber  goes, 
flrong,  his  glad  race  to  run. 

6  From  the-  eaft  end  of  heav'n  he   moves, 

afcends,   and   round   he  flies, 
To  the  weft  end;  and  from   his  heart 
there  nothing  hidden  lies. 

C  2  [2  Parl.l 

%  Hebrew,  Septuagint,   Syriacl,   Arabhk,   &c, 
%  David  was  the  Ty/>/W  Messiah,  and  Ckrjst  his  promifsd 
Seed  the  Rea!%  J 


28  PSALM    XIX. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

7  JEHOVAH's  law  molt  perfect  is, 

and  does  the   foul  convert : 
JEHOVAH'S   teftimony  fure  || 
makes  wife  the  fimple    heart  ; 

8  The  Statutes*  of  the  LORD  are  right, 

and  they   rejoice  the    heart  ; 
The   LORD's  commands  are  clear;  and  they 
light  to  the  eyes   impart. 

9  Both  pure  and  everlafting  is 

JEHOVAH's  facred  fear: 
JEHOVAH's  judgments  are  the   truth, 
and  wholly   righteous   are. 
10  Than   gold,   than    much    refined  gold, 
more  to  be  prized  far  ; 
Sweeter  than  honey,   or  the  juice 

#hcney-combs   they  are. 
them    thy   fervant    warned    is, 
[/;//    heart    and   lift    to  guard  :~\ 
In   carefully    obferving  them, 
there  is  a  great  reward. 

12  Who   can   his  errors  fully  know  ? 

from  fecret   faults    cleanfe   me ; 
And  from  prefumptucus    fins  do  Thou, 
keep    me  thy  fervant  free. 

13  O  never  fuffer  them  to  have 

dominion  over   me ; 
Then   1  mail    rightly   walk,   and   from 
great  fin    preferved  be. 

14  LORD   kt   the  fpeeches   of  my  mouth, 

and  thoughts   within   my  heart, 
To   Thee  be  pleafing  ;   who  my  rock 
and  my    redeemer  art. 

PSALM 

\\  Or  faithful :    fo   the  Hebre-fa     Greek,    Cbaldce,     Sjriack, 
/irahick,  Movtanus,  Aitifin'jitb,  &c, 


P  S  A  L  M    XX.  z9 

PSALM    XX.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 

1  JEHOVAH  hear  thee  in  the  day 
J      of  thy    calamity  ; 

The  name   of  Jacob's   mighty  God 
defend  ||  and  fet  thee   high  : 

2  Help  fend  thee  from  his   holy   place,, 

and  ftrength   from   Zion    give. 

3  Remember    all    thy  offerings, 

and  facrifice    receive.       (Selah.) 

4  Grant   thee  according  to   thy  heart  ; 

thy    counfel    all   fulfil  : 

5  In    thy    falvation    granted,    we 

rejoice  with   fhouting    wiil. 
And  in  the   name  of  our    own   God 

our    banners    we    will    rear : 
Moil  kindly  hear   thee   may   the   LORD 

and  anfwer  all  thy  pray'r. 

6  Now  know  I  that  JEHOVAH  will 

fave   his   Messiah   *  dear, 
With  his  right  hand   of  ftrength  ;  and  from 
his    holy    heav'n  he'll   hear. 

7  In    chariots   fome    their   confidence, 

and    fome    in    horfes   fet  ; 
But  of  the  LORD  our  God  the  name 
we  never   will  forget. 

8  So  we  fhall  rife  and  frand    upright, 

while   they  bow    down   and    fall. 
Save   LORD,  and  hear  us   let  the   king, 
when   we   to   him  do    call. 

C  3  PSALM 

(|  The  Hebrew  feems  to  comprehend  them  both.  See  Poofs 
Sjnopfis,    Amftvortb,    the  Erg.'i/b  Margin,  &C. 

*  In  Hebreiv,  Ckaldee  and  Arabic},  'tis— his  Messiah  ;  and 
in  the  Septuagint  and  ancient  Latin — bis  Christ  :  i.  e\ 
David  his  Typical,  andCHjusT  his  Reel Mzssiah, 


go  PSALM    XXI. 

PSALM   XXI.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 
I    TEHOVAH   in   thy    flren^th 
J      the  king  f  fhall   joyful    be  : 
In   thy    falvation,   how    exult 
exceedingly  fhall  he  ! 

2  Thou  granted  haft   to  him 

that   which  his   heart  would   have  ; 
Yea  thou    from    him   haft   not   with-held 
all  that  his  lips  did  crave.     ( Selah.) 

3  With  bleffings    very   great 

thou   haft  prevented   him  ; 
Of  fineft  gold,  thou  on  his  head, 
haft   fet    a   diadem. 

4  Of  Thee  he  afked  life  ; 

to   him  Thou  didft   it  give, 
Yea  fuch  a  length  of  days,   that  he 
for  evermore  mould  live. 

5  In    thy  falvation    is 

his    glory  very  great, 
Honour  and  majefty  thou   haft 
diftinguifh'd    on    him    fet. 

6  For  thou   for  evermore 

haft  him    moft   bleffed  made  ; 
Thou  mak'ft  him  with   thy  countenance^ 
to   be   exceeding  glad. 

7  Becaufe  the  King  relies 

upon    JEHOVAH  ;   He 
Thro'   mercy  of  the  higheft  One, 
fhall   never    moved   be. 

8  Thy  hand   (hall    find    out    all 

who    foes   to   thee    ftill    are ; 
And  thy  right  hand  fhall  find  out  thejD 
who  hatred    to   thee   bear. 

9  Like   as    a   f?ry  ov'n, 

thine   anger    make   them   fhall  : 
The  LORD  in  wrath  will  them  devour  ; 

and  fire  confume  them  all.  io  Thou 

•\  The  Chaldee   fays — The  King  Messiah  :  i.  e.  David  the 
Typical,  and  CuaisT  the  Real  Messiah.     Sec  v,  4, 


PSALM    XXII.  31 

10  Thou   wilt   deftroy    their    fruit, 

from  off  the  earth,  their  race  ; 
So   that   among  the  fons   of  men 
their   feed    fhall    have   no   place  ; 

11  Becaufe   againft  thee    they 

a   mifchief  did   intend  ; 
A   wicked  plot   did  they  devife  j 
bu^  cannot  reach   their    end. 

12  For  thou  wilt  make  them  fly, 

whenever   thou  malt  place 
Thine  arrows   ready  on  the   ftring, 
and  point  them   at  their  face. 

13  Exalt  thy  felf,  O  LORD  ! 

thy    flrength   in  glory  raife  ; 
So  joyful   pfalms  we'll    (Ing  to  Thee, 
thy   mighty  pow'r   we'll   praife. 

PSALM  XXII.     A  Pfalm  of  David, 
{The  Sufferings,  Prayers,  and Praifes  <?/*Christ.j 

1  *\  Jf  Y  God,  my  God,  wherefore  haft  thou 
XVJL     forfaken  me  ?   ||  and  why 

Art  thou   fo    far  from  helping   me, 
and    from    my  earn  eft    cry  ? 

2  My  God,   I  in   the  day-time  cry, 

but    me    thou   doft  not   hear  ; 
And  in  the  night-time,   but   to  me 
no   quiet  reft  is  there. 

3  Neverthelefs,   thou   holy  art, 

who   conftantly    doft   dwell, 
Among  the  thankful   praifes   of 
thy   people   Ifrael. 

4  Our  fathers  heretofore  in  Thee 

did   put  their   confidence  ; 
They  trufted  Thee,  and  Thou  to  them 
didft   give   deliverance. 

C  4  5  Te 

11  So  Jesus  cried  out  on  the  Crofs,  Mat,  xxvii,  461 


32  PSALM    XXII. 

5  To  Thee  they   cry'd   out   earneftly, 

and  then   falvation   came  ; 
They  plac'd  their  truft:  in  Thee  alone, 
and  were  not  put  to  fhame. 

6  But   as   a   worm,  and    not  a  man, 

I'm   us'd  as   one  forlorn  ; 
I'm    the    reproach    among    the  high, 
among  the  low  the  fcorn. 

7  With  .laughter  all  the   gazing  crowd* 

my    agonies    furvey  ; 
They  (hoot  the  lip,   they  make  the  head, 
end    thus   deriding  fay  ; 

8  '  You  on   JEHOVAH  caft  your  felf, 

*  that  He  might   you    redeem  ; 
1  Let  him  now  come  -and   refcue  you, 
■  flnce    you   delight  in   him.* 

9  But  thou  art   He   who  from  the  womb 

didft  tenderly  me  take  : 
When  I  was  on   my  mother's   breafts 
to    hope  Thou    didft   me    make. 

10  I   even   from  the  womb  have  been 

entirely    caft  on    Thee  ; 
And  from  my  mother's  bowels   Thou 
bail   been    a   God   to   me. 
[  2   Part.  ] 

11  Be  not  Thou   far  away  from  me, 

now  trouble   is    fo    near   ; 
For   there  is   none   to    give  me  help, 
unlefs    Thou    wilt    appear. 

12  My  foes,  as   bulls  on   ev'ry  fide 

have    me    encompafTed  ;  .       - 

Like  mighty  bulls  of  Bafhan  have 
me  round   environed. 

j  3  Their  mouth  they  open  upon   me, 
yea  open    wide  do  they  ; 
Like    lions    ravenous    who    roar, 
when   feizing   on   their  prey. 

14  Like 


PSALM    XXII.  33 

f4  Like   water   I   am   poured  out ; 
my    bones   disjointed  are  ; 
My    heart   amidft  my  bowels  meltsr 
like  wax  amidft  the   fire. 

1$  My  ftreng.th  is  like  a  potfherd  dry'd3 
my  parched  tongue   cleaves  faft 
To   my  dry    mouth,    and    to   the  dufl 
of  death,  me  brought  Thou  haft. 

1 6  Like   furious   dogs   they  me  furround  f 

in   crouds   the  wicked  meet  ; 
Their  rude  afTembly  me  enclofe, 
and  pierce  my  hands  and  feet. 

17  Ev'n  I  may  number  all  my  bones  f. 

on  me  they  look  and  flare  : 

18  For  my  whole  veftufe,  Jots  they  cait, 

and   they    my  garments   fhare. 

19  But  be  not  far,  O  LORD,  my  ftrength  * 

hafte    Thou  to  fuecour    me. 

20  My  piecious  foul,  both  from  the  fword5 

and   pow'r   of  dogs  fet   free. 

210  fave  me   from   the  lion's  mouth  ; 
as  thou  haft  anfwer'd  me, 
When   on  the  horns  of  unicorns 
I  cry'd  aloud   to  Thee. 

22  Then  to  my  brethren  I'll  declare 

the  glories  of  thy  name  °9 
Amidft  the  congregation  I 
thy  praifes  will  proclaim. 
[  3  P*rt.  ] 

23  All  ye  who  fear  the  LORD,  Him  praiis  \ 

all    Jacob's  feed  who   are, 

Him  glorify  ;  all    JfraePs    feed3 

do  ye  Him    greatly  fear. 

24  For   He   th'    affliction    of  the  poor^ 

nor  loaths,  nor  does  defpife  ; 
Nor  hides   his  face  from  him,  but  hears 
when  loud  "to  Him  he  cries, 

C  5.  *5  Et'b. 


34 


PSALM    XXIII. 


25  Ev'n  in  the  congregation  great, 

my  praife  is  of  Thee  ftill  : 
Before   them   who  Him  reverence 
perform   my  vows  I  will. 

26  The  meek  mall  feed,  and  be  fuffic'd : 

and  praife  the  LORD  mall  ye 
Who  feek  his  face;  your  heart  {hall  live 
ev'n   to  eternity. 

27  AH  ends  of  th'  earth  remember  {hall, 

and  turn   all  to  the   LORD  : 
Thee  all  the  heathen   families 
to   worfhip   fhall   accord  : 

28  Becaufe  to  our  JEHOVAH  does 

the  kingdom  appertain  ; 
And  He  among  the  nations  is 
the   ruler   fovereign. 

£9  Earth's  rich  ones  eat,  and  worfhip  {hall* 
all  who  to  dull  defcend 
(For  none  can  keep  alive  their  fouls) 
before  his   face  fhall  bend. 

30  A  feed  for  ever  fhall  Him   ferve, 

which   to  the    Lord  alone 
A  generation  fhall   be  call'd, 
which  He  will  ever  own. 

3 1  They  fhall  come  forth,  and  fhall  declare 

his  glorious  righteoufiaefs  ; 
To  generations  yet  unborn, 
that  he  hath  done  all  this. 

PSALM    XXIII.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 
1   'TT^HE   LORD  himfelf  my  fhepherd  is, 

X        want   therefore  fhall   not    I  : 
%  He  in.  the  "folds  f  of  tender  grafs 
foft  makes  me  down  to  lie  : 
He  leads  me  to  the  waters  ftill  : 

3  Reftore  my  fcul  does  He  : 
In  paths  of  riglueoufnefs   He   will 

for  his  name  fake  lead  me.  4s  Th©' 

\  h  e,  Endojuret  for  Flocks  of  $h*ept 


PSALM    XXIV.  55 

4  Tho'  in  death's  gloomy  vale  I  walk, 

yet   I  will    fear    no  ill  ; 
For  Thou  art  with  me ;   and  thy   rod 
and   ftaff  me   comfort   will. 

5  Thou   haft   for  me   a  table   fpread 

in  prefence  of  my  foes  : 
Thou  doft  my  head  with  oil  anoint, 
and   my  cup  overflows. 

6  Goodnefs  and  mercy  all   my  days 

fhall  furely   follow   me  ; 
And  in  the  LORD's  houfe  I  fhall   dwell 
as   long  as  days  *  fhall   be. 

PSALM  XXIV.     A  Pfalm  of  David, 
i  nnHE  earth  is  all  the  LORD's, 
I         it's    fulnefs    all   is    his  ; 
The  world  and  all  who  dwell  thereia 
his    own    poffeffion  is. 
j  For  its  foundation  He 

upon  the  feas   hath   laid  ; 
And   it    on   the   unliable   floods 
hath   firm   eftablifhed. 

3  But  who  JEHOVAH's  hill 

fhall   happily   afcend  ? 
And  in    his  place   of  fan&ity, 
who   fhall  on  Him   attend  ? 

4  The  man  whofe  hands   are  clean, 

whofe   heart  is  pure  ;  and   he 
Who  hath  not  lift  his  foul   to  lies, 
nor   fwom   deceitfully. 

5  The   benediction   he 

fhall  from   the   LORD   receive, 
And  righteoufnefs   fhall    from   the  God 
of  his   falvation    have. 
€  Of  thofe   who    feek   for   Him, 
this  is  the  blelTed  i  ace  ; 
And  they  are   Jacob's  genuine  feed, 
who  chiefly  feek  thy  face.     (Selah.) 

C  *  Part.  3 

*  So  the  Hebrew,  and  all  the  ancient  Fojtvm, 


§6  PSALM    XXV, 

[   *  Part.   ]|| 
7  Ye   gates   lift  up    your    heads, 
eternal    doors    give    way  ; 
Lift  up   on   high,    that  enter  in 
the  king   of  glory   may. 
3  Who    is    this    glorious   king  ? 
we   beg   you    now   declare   ! 
He  is  JEHOVAH  great  in    powVj. 
the    mighty  LORD   of  war. 

9  Ye  gates  lift   up    your  heads, 
eternal    doors    give    way  ; 
Lift  up   on   high,   that  enter   ira 
,  the   king   of  glory    may. 
fcO  Who  is  this    glorious   king  I 
reveal  and   let   us  fee  ! 
He's   the   triumphant  LORD  of  hofts  : 
this    glorious    king    is   He.      (Selah.) 
P  S  A'L  M    XXV.     A  Pfalm  of  Davids 
i   np O  Thee,  O  LORD,  I  lift  my  fouls 
JL      .  2   My  God,   I  truft  in   Thee  : 
Let  me  not  be  afham'd  ;   nor   let 
•     my   foes   joy   over    me., 

3  Yea,    let    not  any  be    afliam'd,    - 

who    hope   and   wait   on   Thee  °. 
But  all  who  are  unjuft  \  and  vain,  J 
let   them   afhamed   be.. 

4  Thy  ways,   JEHOVAH,  to  me  fhowy 

thy,  paths,  make  me   difcein  ; 

5  O    make   me  in   thy   truth    to  go, 

and    caufe   Thou    me    to   learn. 
For   of  my  health   Thou    art  the   God* 
I  :i    Thee    I   wait    all    day  : 

6  Thy  bowe'is,  LORD,  and. mercies  mind  ; 

for,    evermore  are   they.  7  Re* 

j[  The  following  Verfes  feem  to  represent  both  the  victorious 
Entrance  o^Cbrist  by  his  Word  and  Spirit  into  the  Hearts 
oftha  Qh.idre:  cf  Men  on  Earth,  and  his  triumphant  En- 
tiance  into  Heavi  n. 

f  Sep,iuagi:.tt  Syriach,  Arcbick ,  J  Qkaldte ;  and  the  Hebrew 
aiay  include  b'uth,.  * 


PSALM    XXV.  37 

1  Remember  not  my  faults  of  youth, 

nor  later  fins    record  : 
In   mercy,   for  thy  goodnefs  fake 

remember  me,   O   LORD. 
§  The  LORD  is   good  and  juit.  ;   therefore 

the   way  He'll   finners  (how  : 
9  The  meek  He  will  in  judgment  guide* 

and    make  his  way   to  know. 

io  JEHOVAH's  paths  all  mercy  are, 
and   truth    all  of  them   too, 
To  them   who   keep  his    covenant 
and    teftimonies    do. 
ii  JEHOVAH,   for  thy  own  name  fake5 
I   humbly    Thee   intreat 
To   pardon   mine   iniquity,, 
for   it   is    very   great. 

[  2    Part.  J 

12  Who  fear  the  LORD,  them  He  will  teach,. 

the  way  that   they   mould  chufe  ; 

13  Their  foul's  (hall  dwell  at  eafe  ;  their  feed 

as   heirs   the   earth  (hall   ufe. 

14  With  them  who  humbly  fear  the  LORD* 

his   fecret  love  doth    dwell  ; 
And   his   moft  gracious  covenant 
to   them    He   will   reveal. 

15  Mine  earner!   eyes   continually 

rais'd    to    JEHOVAH  are  ; 

For   He  it   is   that    can    fet  free 

my  feet    out    of  the   fnare. 

16  O   turn   Thou  now  to   me  thy  face* 

and    on    me    mercy  mow  ; 
For  I   am   in    a  lonely   cafe, 
afflicted,    poor,    and    low. 

17  The  troubles-  of  my  heart  are  great  5 

bring-  me    from    my    diftrefs, 
28  My  pain  and  my  affliction   fee, 
and  all  my  fins  r  el  eafe, 

19  Confide? 


38  PSALM    XXVI. 

19  Confider  Thou  mine  enemies  ; 

for    multiply'd   they    are, 
And    it   a   cruel    hatred   is 
which   they   againft   me   bear. 

20  O  do  Thou   fafely  keep  my  foul, 

do  Thou   deliver  me  ; 
And  let   me-  never  be  afham'd, 
becaufe   I   trull   in  Thee. 

21  Let  foundnefs  and  let  uprightnefs* 

keep  me   who  wait*  on  Thee : 
32  From  all  his  troubles  Ifrael, 
O  GOD,  do  thou  fet  free. 
PSALM    XXVI.     A  Pfalm  of  David, 
*  JUDGE  me,  O  LORD,  as  I  have  walk'd 
J      in    mine    integrity  : 
And  as  I   on  JEHOVAH  truft, 
Aide  therefore  mail  not  I. 

2  O  fearch   and   prove  me  LORD  j  and  try 

my  reins,  my  heart  likewife  : 

3  For  in  thy  truth  I  walk,  and  fix 

thy  grace  f  before  mine  eyes. 

4  With  perfons  vain  I  have  not  fat, 

nor  with  diffemblers  gone  : 

5  All   evil  company  I  hate, 

and  all  the  wicked  fhun; 

6  In  purenefs,  LORD,  I'll  wafh  my  hands  ; 

thine  altar  then  furround, 

7  With  thankful  voice  that  I  may  tell, 

and  all  thy  wonders  found. 

S  The  dwelling  of  thy  houfe,  O  LORD, 
moft  dearly  love   do  I  ; 
The  place  and  tabernacle  where 
refides  thy  majefty. 
9  With  bloody  or  with  wicked  men, 

O   gather   not  my  foul ; 
10  Whofe  hands  with  fraud,  and  whofe  right  hands 
with  bribery  are  full. 

11  But 
^  Ikkrew~ Loving-kindnefs  or  Benignity, 


PSALM    XXVII.  ^ 

u  But  I  in  my  integrity 

will  walk,  fecur'd  by  Thee  : 
O  me  redeem,  and  of  thy  grace 
be  merciful  to  me. 
12  Upon   an   even  place   my  foot 
ftands   firm   in   uprightnefs  : 
In  the  alTemblies*  therefore  I 
the  LORD   will  ever  blefs. 
PSALM  XXVII.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 
i  npHE  LORD  my  light  and  Safety:):  is; 
X       who  fhall  make  me   difmay'd  ? 
The  LORD  is   of  my  life  the  ftrength  i 
who   fhall   make   me   afraid  ? 

2  For  when  my  fpiteful  enemies 

me  to  devour  drew   near  ; 
To  (tumble  and  fall  down  at  once, 
by  Him   they   forced   were. 

3  Againft  me  tho'   an  hoft  encamp, 

my  heart  undaunted  is  : 
If  war   againft  me   mould  arife, 
1  am   fecure   in  this. 

4  One   thing   I  afked    of  the  LORD, 

which  frill  I  will  requeft ; 
That   in   the   LORD's  houfe  all   my  days 
I  happily   may  reft ; 

That   I  the  beauty  of  the   LORD 

may   view,  and  there  admire  ; 
And  in  his    holy   temple   may 

continually  enquire. 
5  For  He  in  his   pavilion  will 

me  hide  ia  evil  days  ; 
In  fecret   of  his  tent  me  hide, 

and  on  a  rock  me  raife  : 
€  Moreover  at  this  time  my  head 

on   high  fhall    lifted  be, 
Above   my  num'rous   enemies, 

who  round   encompafs  me.  There* 

|  Safety  or  Salvation,  Hebrew/;  or  SAYIOVXjrf&tffcVA? 

It  comprehends  taem  all, 


'4<?  PSALM    XXVIL 

Therefore   a  facrifice   of  joy, 

and    fhouting*    I  will   bring 
Into  his   tent ;  and   ling    aloud, 

praife  to   JEHOVAH   fing. 

[  2  Part.  J 

7  While   with  my  earneft  voice  I  cry, 

me  O  JEHOVAH  hear; 
O   have   Thou   mercy   upon  me,, 
and  to  me  give   thine  ear. 

8  When  Thou  to  feek  thy  bleiTed  face, 

me   kindly   doll    advife  ; 
«  Thy  blefTed  face,  LORD,  I   will  feek,",, 
my  grateful  heart  replies. 

9  O   hide  not  Thou  thy   countenance, 

away   from   me   therefore; 
Thy  fervant  put  thou   not  away 

in    thy    difpleafure   fore. 
My   helper  Thou  haft  ever  been, 

do  not  from    me    depart  ; 
Nor    me  forfake,  for    Thou  the  God 

of  my  falvation   art. 

JiO  My   father  and   my  mother   both, 
tho'    they   from   me   remove  ; 
Yet  then  the    LORD  will  take  me  upj 
and  a    kind  father   prove. 
*i  JEHOVAH   teach   thou   me   thy  way3 
and  be   a   guide   to    me, 
In   righteous   paths,   becaufe   of  thoffi 
who  watch  my  faults  to  fee. 

*2  O    give  me  not   up   to  their  willj 
who   are   mine   enemies  : 
Againft   me   rife   falfe   witnefTes, 
who  breath   out   cruelties. 
1:3  I  mould  have  fainted,  had  not  I 
believ'd   that  I    mould   fee, 
Ev'n   in    the  land  of  living    ones 
the  LORD'S  benignity. 

14  Wait 


PSALM    XXVIII.         4r 

14  Wait  on  the    LORD,  couragious  be  ; 
and  He   will   ftrength   afford 
To  thy   faint  heart :  I  fay    again, 
wait  ftill    upon  the  LORD. 

PSALM  XXVIII.    A  Pfalm  of  David. 

1  S~~\  LORD,  my  rock,  to  Thee  I  cry ; 
V^/  Be  not  thou  filent  then  to  me ; 
Left  by  thy   filence   I  like   them 
Defcending  to  the  pit  mould  be. 

2  Of  my  intreaties   hear  the  voice, 
While  to  Thee  loud  for  help  I  cry; 
While  I  lift  up  my  hands   towards 
Thine   oracle  of  fanclity. 

3  With  ill   men  draw  me  not  away, 
With    workers   of  unrighteoufnefs  ; 

Who    peace  to    all  their  neighbours  fpeak, 
But   in   their   heart   is    wickednefs. 

4  Thou  wilt  reward    them  for  their  deeds> 
According  to    their   ill  intents  ; 
According   to  their  handy-works, 

Thou   wilt   them  juftly  recompence. 

5  Since  they   JEHOVAH's,  wonders  flight, 
And    working    of  his    hand   difdain  ; 

Ke  will   them  righteoufly  deftroy, 
And  will   not  build    them    up    again. 

6  The  LORD  be  blefs'd  ;  for  He  hath  heard 
The    voice    of   my  imploring   cry  : 

The  LORD   my  ftrength,    my  fhield  ;  on  Him 
My  heart  rely'd,  and  help'd  was  I. 

Therefore   my  heart  exults   with  joy, 
And  with    my  fong  I'll   Him  confefs. 

7  JEHOVAH  is  his   people's    ftrength, 
The  ftrength  of  his  Messiah  *  is. 

8  Salvation 

*  Of  his  Messiah  ;  Hebrew,  Cbaldee,  Syriack,  Arabick  :  of 
his  Christ  ;  the  Septuagint  and  ancient  Latin  ;  i.  e.  bothv 
of  David  h\s  typical,  and  of  the  Man  Christ  Jesvs  his 
fromifed  and  Real  Me-ssiah, 


42  PSALM    XXIX. 

8  Salvation  to  thy  people  give  ; 

And   blefs    Thou    thine   inheritance  ; 
Yea   e^en  to    eternity 
Do  Thou  them  feed  and  them  advance. 
[  This  Verfe  in  Common  Metre.  ] 
8  Salvation  to   thy  people    give  ; 
blefs    thine   inheritance  ; 
And  even   to   eternity 

them   feed   and  them  advance. 
PSALM  XXIX.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 
i   /~\  Ye  the  fons  of  mighty  ones,  f     (\Eiim.) 
\J     give  to  the  LORD  on  high  ! 
All  glory    to  JEHOVAH  give, 
and  boundlefs    potency. 

2  O   to  the   LORD  the  glory  give 

which  to  his    name   is    due  : 
In  beauty   of  his    holinefs, 
down  to   JEHOVAH  bow. 

3  The  LORD's  voice  on  the  waters  founds, 

the   God  of  glory,  hear, 
Thunders   aloud:  JEHOVAH   fits, 
on  many  waters  there. 

4  The  voice  is  full  of  pow'r,  which  founds 

forth    from   the  LORD  on  high  : 
JEHOVAH's  mighty  voice  is   full 
of  glorious    majefty. 

5  See  how  JEHOVAH's  voice  at  once 

the    fhiv'ring    cedars    tears  : 
See  how  the  LORD   the  cedars  breaks 
which    Lebanon   high   rears. 

6  Like  calves  He  makes  the  mountains  leap, 

ev'n    That  great  Lebanon  ; 
And  like   a  youthful  unicorn, 
that   mountain   Syrion. 

7  JEHOVAH's  voice  flrikes  flames  of  fire, 

and   fcatters    them    around  : 

8  JEHOVAH's   voice  the   defart   makes 

to  tremble  with  the  found.  [EHOVAH 


PSALM    XXX.  43 

JEHOVAH   makes   the  wildernefs 

of  Kadefh  make  with  fear  : 
9  The  LORD's  voice  makes  the  frighted  Hinds 

to  call  their  young  ones   there. 
With  glares  of  lightning  thro'   the  dark 

He  makes  the   forefts  bare. 
But  his   full  *   glory  He  within 

his   temple   does   declare. 

10  The  LORD   fits   on  the  fload   as   king ; 

the   LORD's    reign  ne'er   mall   ceafe  : 

1 1  The  LORD  will  give  his   people  ftrength  ; 

the  LORD  them  blefs  with  peace. 

PSALM    XXX. 

A  Vfalm  and  Song  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Boufe 

of  David. 

1  1        ORD,  I  will    thee  extol  on   high  ; 

■   J     for  Thou  haft  made  me  rife ; 
And  joyful   haft   not    made   to   be 
o'er  me  mine   enemies. 

2  O  LORD    my  God,  I   cry'd  to  thee, 

and  Thou  haft  made  me  whole. 

3  JEHOVAH,  Thou  ev'n  from  the  grave 

haft  raifed  up  my  foul : 

Thou  from  the  pit  haft  quick'ned  me  s 

4  O  fing   ye  to  the   LORD, 
Ye  faints   of  his,  give   thanks   when  ye 

his  holinefs  record. 

5  For  but  a  moment  *  is  his  wrath  5 

life  in  his  love   doth   ftay  : 
Tho'  weeping  laft  thro'  all  the   night> 
joy  comes  at  break  of  day. 

6  For  in   my  profp'rous   ftate  I  faid, 

"  I  ne'er  mall   moved  be  ; 

7  "  Since,  LORD,  my  mountain  by  thy  grace 

"  is   made  fo  ftrong  by  Thee." 

8  But  quickly  thou  thy  face  didft  hide  ; 

I  greatly  was  difmay'd  : 
LORD  then  I  call'd  aloud  on  Thee, 

and  to  the  LORD  thus  pray'd  ;        £  «  What 


44  PSALM    XXXI. 

9  "  What  gain  is  in   ray  blood  when  I 
"  into   the    pit   go   down  ? 
u  Shall  dull  give  glory   then    to   Thee  ? 
"  Shall  it    thy  truth    make    known  ? 

10  "  Do    thou  me,  O  JEHOVAH,   hear  ; 

"  and   on    me,  mercy   have  : 
«  To  me,   JEHOVAH,  be  Thou  near, 
"  an  helper   me   to  fave  T' 

1 1  My    mourning  then    into    a   dance 

for   me   Thou   turned  haft  ; 
With   gladnefs   Thou   haft  girded  me, 
and    off  my   fackcloth    caft. 

12  So   mail  my   glory   fing   thy   praife, 

and  never  filent  be  : 
O  LORD  my  God,  I   will   give   thanks 
for  evermore   to   Thee. 

PSALM  XXXI.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 

i  TN  Thee,  O  LORD,  I  put  ray  truft; 
X     afham'd  ne'er  let  me  be  : 
According    to    thy    righteoufnefs, 
do   Thou  deliver  me. 

2  Bow  down  thine  ear    to    me  :    with    fpeed 

give  me   deliverance. 
To   fave   me,  be  my  rock  of  ftrength, 
and    houfe    of   my   defence. 

3  Becaufe    Thou    art  my  rock   and  fort, 

in   whom    I    will    confide, 
Theiefoie   for  thy  name  lake  do  Thou 
me   fafely,  lead  ||   and   guide.  || 

4  O   pull  me   from   the    net   which   they, 

for    me    in    fee  ret    laid  ; 
Becaufe   Thou    only   art    my  ftrength, 
in   whom   I  trull   for   aid. 

5 


Into 


Q  i,  e.  either,   Lead  me  by  thy  Viand,  and  guide  me  by  tbitte  Eye  i 
or — Lead,  yea  had  me  along  continually \ 


PSALM    XXXI.  45 

5  Into  thy  hands    I   fafe    commit 

my   foul  ;  for  Thou   art  He, 
O  Thou   JEHOVAH,   God   of  truth, 
who   haft  redeemed   me.* 

6  The   men    who   lying   vanities 

regard,  I  have  abhor'd  : 
But  I  have   plac'd  my   confidence 
alone   upon    the   LORD. 

7  I   in  thy   mercy   will    exult 

and  will  rejoice  ;   for  Thou 
Did'ft  my  affliction   fee   and  weigh, 
my  foul  in  trouble  know ; 

8  And   didft  not   let  my   foe   keep  me, 

enclofed  in  his   hand ; 
But  in  the  place  of  libeity 
hail  made   my  feet   to   fland. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

9  O  LORD,  becaufe  I  am  .  diftrefs'd, 

in  mercy  fend  relief  : 
My  foul,  my  bowels,  and  mine  eye, 
confumed   are  with  grief. 

10  Becaufe  my  life  with  trouble  fails ; 

with  groans  my  years  decay ; 
And  for  my  fins  my  ftrength  is  fpent^ 
my  bones  confume  away. 

1 1  To  all  my  foes  I  am   a  fcorn, 

neighbours    efpecially  ; 
A  fear  to   friends ;  and  thofe  abroad 
who  fee  me  from  me  fly. 

12  Ev'n  like  a  dead  man,  out  of  mind, 

I  quite    forgotten    lie  ; 
And  as   a  potter's  veiTd  broke,  |J 
fo   much    defpis'd  am  I. 

13  For 


.» 


Hebrew,  Septuagint,  ancient  Latin,  Chaldee,  Syriack,  Arakick, 
Hdreiv,   Sepivagint  and   ancient  Latin—a  VefTel  deilroyed  ; 

Arab,  a  VeiTel  broken  5  Chaldee,  a  Potter's  Veffel  broken 

to  Pieces, 


46  PSALM    XXXI. 

13  For  (landers  I  of  many  heard, 

and   fears   around  me   lay, 
While    they    conddted   and   devis'd 
to    take    my  life  *    away. 

1 4  But  all  this   while  on  Thee,  0   LORD, 

I  trulted  itill   for  aid  ; 
"  For   Thou  art   my  almighty   God," 
my  foul  within   me  faid ; 

15  My  times  are  wholly   in  thy  hand; 

now    therefore  fet    me    free 
Far   from  the  hand  of  all    my  foes, 
and   thofe   who  trouble   me. 

[   3   P*"'  ] 

16  The  brightnefs    of  thy    face   to   (hine 

on  me   thy   fervant   make  ; 
And  thy   falvation   to   me   grant, 
for  thy  free    mercy  fake 

17  LORD,   let   me   not   afhamed   be; 

for   call'd  on  Thee    I    have  ; 
But  wicked  men  (hall  be  aiham'd, 
till   filent  in  the  grave. 

iS  The  lying  lips  (hall  filenc'd  be, 

which    grievous    things   have  faid,; 
And    hard    reports   in    pride    and  fcor» 
againlt    the   righteous    fpread. 

19  How   great  thy  goodnefs    in  thy  flore, 

for  thofe  who   fear  Thee,  then  ! 
Yea  wrought  for   them   who  truft  in  Thee, 
before  the  fons   of  men  ! 

20  In  fecret  of  thy  prefence   Thou 

wilt  fcreen   them    from    man's    pride  ; 
And  fafely  wilt  from   ftrife  of  tongues 

in    thy   pavilion   hide. 
ai  O   let   JEHOVAH   blefTed  be, 

for    wondrous   kindnefs   fliown, 
When  thieatr.ing  dangers  me  enclos'd 

within   a  fenced   town.  ||  22  For 

I  No  doubt  alluding  to  his  beicg  in  Krileb  $  1  Sam,  xxii.  5— *s« 


PSALM    XXXII.  4> 

22  For  in  my   hafte   I  thought   and   faid ; 

"  I'm   cut  off  from   thine  eyes," 
Yet  when  I   cry  d  to   Thee,    then    Thou 
didft  kindly   hear  my   cries. 

23  O   love    the  LOR.D,   all   ye   his   faints  ! 

the  LORD   the  faithful   guards ; 
But  thofe  who    live   and    act   in   pride, 
He  dreadfully  rewards. 

24.  Encourage  then   your  felves  in  him, 
and  he*ll  more   flrength  afford 
To   your  enfeebled   hearts,  all  ye 
whofe  hope   is   in    the  LORD. 

PSALM    XXXII.    A  Pjalm  */ David. 

1  /^V  BlefTed  is   the  man  to  whom 
\J     trefpafs    is    pardoned ; 

And  he   whofe   faults   of  ev'ry  kind 
are    wholly    covered  ! 

2  O  bletfed  is   the  man,  to    whom 

the  LORD  imputes   not  (in  ; 
And  he  who  fuch   a  fpirit  hath, 
that   guile  is    not   therein. 

3  For  while  I   no   confeffion   made, 

but   filent  kept    my    tongue, 
My  bones,  as  if  with   age,  decay' d 
with    groaning  all    day    long. 

4  For   heavily   thy   hand   did   lie 

upon  me   day   and  night  ; 
That  into  fummer's  fcorching  drought 
my  moiilure  turned   quite.     ( '  Selah.) 

5  At   length   my  fin  I   did  confefs,    , 

with    humble  fhame  to    Thee  ; 
And  hid  not  from   Thee  any  part 
of  mine  iniquity. 

6  Againft  ray  ielf,  I  faid,  (i  my  fins 

"  I'll   to  the  LORD    confefs  ;M 
And   then    of  mine  iniquity 

Thou  didft  the  guilt  releafe.     (Selah.) 

7  For 


4a  PSALM    XXXIII. 

7  For   this  each   godly  cne  to  Thee 

in   finding    time    mall   pray  : 
Surely  in   Hoods  of  waters   great, 

reach  to   *  him   mall  not  they. 
Thou  "art  my  hiding  place  :  thou  wilt 

from  trouble   keep  J  me  free  ; 
With    fongs   of  glad   deliverance; 

thou   wilt  encompafs  me.     ( Selab.) 

8  To  me  thou  fayft,    "  I'll    thee    inftrutf, 

"  thee  teach  the    way  will   I, 
"  Wherein   'tis   bell  for  thee    to    go, 
"  and  guide  thee  with   mine  eye." 

9  "  Be    neither    like  a  horfe   or   mule, 

"  who    never    underftand  ; 
"  Whofe  mouths  with  bits  and  reins  are  held, 
"  to  keep   them  in  command. 

IO  "  To  ev'ry  one  who    wicked  is, 
"  mall   many    griefs  abound  : 
"  But   him  who   on   the   LORD   relies, 
"  mail   mercy  compafs    round." 
Ii  Be   glad,   ye  righteous,  in  the    LORD, 
greatly  in    Him   rejoice  ; 
And  all    who    upright    are  in   heart, 
Ihout  with   a  joyful   voice. 

PSALM    XXXIII. 

i   "\7"E    righteous,  in   the   Lord, 
X        exceedingly  rejoice   ; 
For  it  is    comely    for  th'   upright, 
with   praife   to    lift    their  voice. 

2  With    pfahries,  harps   and    lutes, 

ling  praifes   to   the    LORD  ; 

3  A   new    fong  loudly   fing   to    Him, 

with  ikill  and   fweet  accord  ; 

4  Becaufe 

*  Hebrew,   Munfter,  Montar.us,    &c.    i.  e.  being   phe'd  as  00 

the  Top  of  a  high  Rock  above  the  Waves  j  Gejtr, 
;$  HtbrtiV)  Cbaldee,  Montavu$, 


PSALM    XXXIII.  4? 

4  Eecaufe   JEHOVAH's    word 

is   altogether   right  ; 
And   all  his  work  is  done  in    truth, 
and   brings    his    truth  to    light. 

5  He  loves  all  righteoufnefs, 

judgment    and   equity  : 
And  all   the  earth  is  filled   with 
the   LORD'S   benignity. 

6  For  by  JEHOVAH's  word 

the  heav'ns  had  all  their  frame ; 
Aud  by  the  fpirit  of  his   mouth, 
all  armies   of  the   fame. 

7  The  waters  of  the  fea 

he  gathers  as  an  heap  ; 
In   channels   as  in    treafuries 
he  lays   up   all  the  deep. 

8  Let  all   throughout  the  earth, 

the  great  JEHOVAH  fear, 
Let  all  the  dwellers  of  the   world 
to  Him  deep   rev'rence  bear  : 

9  Becaufe  he  did  but  fpeak 

the  word  ;  and  it  was  made  ; 
He  did  but  his  commandment  give? 
and  it  was  firmly  ftaid. 

10  JEHOVAH  brings   to   nought 

the   fchemes  of  nations   wife  ; 
He  renders  all   in  vain    the  plots 
the  fubt'leil  men  devife. 
[I  The  counfel    of  the  LORD 
abide  for   ever   fhall  ; 
The  cogitations  of  his  heart, 
to  generations   all. 

I  2  Part.  ] 
1 2  O  blefTed   nation   they, 

whofe  God  JEHOVAH   is ; 
That  people,  for  an  heritage 
"He  chofen  hath  as  his. 

D  13  The 


53  PSALM   XXXIV. 

13  The  LORD  from  heav'n  looks  down, 

on   all  the  human   race  : 

14  He  all   v/ho   dwell   around   the  earth 

views   from  his  dwelling  place. 

15  He   fafhions  at   his  will 

the  hearts  of  all   mankind  ; 
And   all    their   operations   he 
attentively   does    mind. 

16  By  multitudes  of  hofts 

no  king  himfelf  can  fave, 
The  mighty  by  their  greateft  ftrength, 
can   not  deliv'rance   have. 

17  A  horfe  a  vain  thing   is 

to   fave  one  in   the   fight ; 
Neither    can  he   deliv'rance   give 

by  greatnefs   of  his    might. 
jS  But  lo,   who   fear   the  LORD, 

on  them     He  fets   his  eye;  |j 
On   them  who  place   their  lively  hope 
.    in    his  benignity. 

19  To  fave  our  fouls   from  death 

by  war  and   famine,  free  ; 

20  Our   fouls  will  for   JEHOVAH  wait ; 

our  help   and  fhieid  is  he. 

21  We  truft  his   holy   name  ; 

fo  our   hearts    in    Him  joy. 

22  LORD,  let    thy  mercy  be  on   us, 

as   we  on  Thee   rely. 
PSALM   XXXIV.     A  Pfalm   of  David, 

tuben   he  changed  his   Behaviour    befort   Abimelech  } 

nvbo  drew?  kirn  aivay, 

.t  TN   all  the  feafons   of  my   life 
X.     JEHOVAH  blefs  will  I, 
And  in  my   mouth   his  praifes   mall 
abide    continually. 
2  My  foul  fhall   glory  in  the  LORD, 
and  praife   him  with    my   voice  ; 
And   when    the    humble   hear  of  this, 
they  greatly  will  rejoice. 

3  With 

(j  i.  e,  with  •  fatherly  Carr  and  Watehfulnefi, 


PSALM    XXXIV.  ji 

«  With   me  together,  O  do  ye 
JEHOVAH  magnify; 
And  let  us  all  herein  agree, 
to  lift  his   name   on   high. 

4  In*  my   diftrefs  I  fought  the  LORD  ; 

and  He  to  me   gave    ear, 
And   gracioufly   deliver'd   me 
from  all  that   was  my  fear. 

5  They  look'd  to  him  ;  enlighten'd   were ; 

no   lhame   did  them  appall : 

6  This  poor  man  cry'd  ;  the  LORD  did  hesr# 

and  fave  from   troubles  all. 

7  The  angels  of  the  LORD   encamp 

and  round  about  them   {land, 
Who  fear  Him,  to  preferve    them  from 
all   evil  near  at   hand. 

8  How  bountiful  JEHOVAH  is, 

O  tafte  and  fee  likewife  ! 
O  great  is  that  man's   blefTednefs 
who  firm  on   him  relies  ! 

9  O  ye  JEHOVAH's  holy  ones, 

fee   that  ye  Him   revere  ; 
For  there  mall  be  no  want  to   them 
who  Him  fincerely  fear. 

10  Young  lions  often  fufTer  want, 

and   hungry   pine   for  food ; 
But  they  who  'truly  fear  ths  LORD, 
mall  want   no   real   good. 
[  2  Pari.  ] 

11  O   come  ye  children  now   to  me, 

give  ye  attentive  ear  ; 
And  I  will  you  inftruct  how  ye 
the  LORD   aright   mail   fear. 
11  Who  is   the  man  that   would   have  %  life* 
and  many  days   defires, 
That  he   may  long   enjoy  the  good 
to  which  his   heart   afpire3. 

D  2  t%  Thf 

%  So  the  Hebrew  and  all  the  ament  Fcrfim, 


Sz  PSALM    XXXV. 

13  Thy  tongue   from   evil   keep,  thy   lips 

from  fpeaking  guile   keep   thou  : 

14  Depart  from  evil  and  do  good  ; 

feek  peace  and  it  purfue. 
j  5  Upon   the   men  who    righteous   are 
the   LORD   doth  fee   his    eye  ; 
And  bows  down  his    attentive   ear, 
when  e'er  to  Him  they  cry. 

26  Againft   thofe  who   do   wickedly 
JEHOVAH  fets  his  face  ; 
That  he  may  quite  from   off  the   earth 
their   hateful  mem'ry  raze. 
57  But    when   the  righteous  cry  to   Him, 
JEHOVAH    hears    their  call  ; 
Aod    will  deliv'rance  give  to    them 
out   of  their  troubles  all. 

18  To   thofe  who   broken   are   in   heart, 

the    LORD  is  ever   near; 
And  He  will   furely   fave   fuch  as 
in    fpirit  contrite  are. 

19  Tho*  the  juft  man  has  many  griefs, 

the  LORD    from  all    will  free  : 

20  And  all  his  bones    He   keeps   fecure, 

that  none  (hall  broken  be. 

21  Evil  (hall  flay  the  wkked  man; 

and  all  whoever  hate 
The  righteous   man,  and  ne'er   repent, 
{hall  fure   be  defolate. 

22  But   who    JEHOVAH   ferve,  their   fouls 

He  freely   wiij   redeem  : 
Nor   utterly   (hall   aay  fail, 

who    put    their   trull   in   Him. 

P  S  A  L  M    XXXV.     A  Pfdlpt  of  David. 
l  1       ORD  drive  with  them,  who  with  me  drive  ; 

I    J     Againft  them  fight  who  fight  with  me  : 
1  Gf  (hield  and  buckler   take '  thou  hold  ; 
Aftd   O   arife  my   help  to   be. 

3  Draw 


PSALM    XXXV.  S3 

3  Draw  forth   the  fpear  and   ilop   the  courfe 
Of  my   purfuers    fpeedily  ; 

And  to  my  foul  O   do  thou  fay, 
"  I  will  a  faviour   be  to  Thee." 

4  With  fhame  mail  they  confounded  be, 
Who   feek  my   harmlefs  foul    to   feize ; 
And  with   difgrace  be   turned   back, 
Who  plot  to   do   me  injuries. 

5  JEHOVAH'S  angel  (hall    them  chafe 
As  chaff  before    the   driving    wind  : 

6  Their   way   (hall   dark    and  ilinp'rv .be, 
JEHOVAH'S  angel   drive  bchinfr-f 

7  Fcr  caufeleily   within   a   pit 
They .  hid  a   net  me  to   enfhare  ; 

A   pit  which  they   without   a  caufe 
Did   dig,   and  for  my   foul   prepare. 
3  But   ruin    bn  them    unawares 

Shall  come  ;  and    iri    their    hidden   lie.t 
They  mail  be  Caught,  and  ruin'd  by 
The  fnare  their  hand  for  me  had  fet. 

9  My  foul  fliall  in  the  LORD   rejoice, 

In  his  faivation   joyful    be  ; 
10  And  all   my  bones  with  joy  mall   fing 
"  JEHOVAH,  who  is  like  to   Thee>' 
"  Who  fav'ft  the  poor  and  weak  from  'thofe 
**'  Who  for  him  are   too  great  and   itrong  ; , 
"  The   poor  and   needy  or>e    from   thofe 
"  Who   him  opprefs  with  fpoii  and  wrong  \'> 

[   2   Vart.    ] 

i  j  Falfe   witness   arofe  ;   and  things 

I    never  knew,  to  me  they   laid  : 
2  2  To   fpoil   my  foul,   ungratefully 

they  evil    for   my  good  repaid. 
33  But  as   for   me,   when   they  were   flck  ; 

I   put  on  fack cloth,  and  I  mourn'd  ; 

My  foul  with  faPdng  griev'd  ;  my  pray\r 

Within  my  bofom   oft   return'd. 

D  3  14  ^ 


54  PSALM    XXXV. 

J4  As  for  my  friend   or  brother  dear; 

So  tenderly    behave    did    I ; 

As  for   a  dying  mother   wept, 

And   I   bcv/d    downward   heavily. 
1-5  Yet  they   in    my   diftrefs    rejoice, 

And   they   againft   me   gathered   are  ; 

The  bafeft  meet  unknown  to  me, 

And  never  ceafe   my  name   to  tear.* 

16  With  fcofnng  hypocrites  at  feafts, 
Who  get  theii    bread  with  flatteries  ; 
They  grtafh   againft  me  with  their  teeth, 
And  fland'rous  jcfts  on   me  devife. 

ti  O   Lord  how  long  wilt    thou  look  on  ? 
Frcm  their  deftruclion   refcue  me  I 
My  precious  foul  make  hafte  to  fave, 
My  deareft  from  young   lions  free  ; 

it  So  I   to  thee  will   render  thanks 
Within  the   congregation   great ; 
And  I  will   celebrate  thy  praife, 
Where  multitudes  to  worftiip   meet. 

[   3  Part.  ] 

19  O  let  them  not  o'er   me  rejoice, 
Who  are  my  wrongful   enemies  ; 
Nor   thofe  who   hate  me   caufelefly, 
Deride  me  with  their  fcornful  eyes. 

30  for  they,  nor  fpeak,   nor  aim  for  peace; 
Btit   they  the  Words  of  fraud  contrive, 
Againft  thofe  people   in   the  laad 

Who  Jove  in  quietnefs  to  live. 

31  Yea  they  with  open  mouths  on  me 
Laugh  out   and   fay,     "  Our  eye  it  faw  !" 

32  LORD,  Thou  haft  feen  :  hold  not  thy  peace  : 
Lord  do  not  far  from  me   withdraw. 

23  O   to  my  judgment  and  my  caufe 
My  God,  my    Lord,   awake  and  rife  : 

34  LORD  judge  me  in  thy  righteoufnefs, 
My  God,  left  they  o'er  me  rejoice. 

25  O 


PSALM    XXXVI.  SS 

25  0  never  let  their  hearts  exult, 

"  Ha  !  ha  !   our  fouls  defire  have  we  is> 

Nor  ever  fuffer  them  to  boaft, 

That  they  have  wholly  fwallow'd  me. 

26  Confounded  and   afham'd  mall    be 

All  thofe   who  at  my   hurt  are   glad  ; 
And   thofe  who   now   againfl  me  boair, 
With  fhame  and  with  difgrace  be  clad. 

27  Let  thofe  who  love   my  righteous  cauie, 
Rejoice  and  fhout ;  and  never  ceafe 

To  fay,  "  The   LORD  be  magnify'd, 
"  Who  loves  to   fee   his  fervants  peace." 

28  And  fo,   to  fhout  thy    rlghteoufnefs, 
Shall  be  th'  employment  of  my  tongue  ; 
And   thy   high   praifes  to   fet  forth, 
From  day  to  day,  and  all  day  long.  % 

PSALM  XXXVI.    APfalm  of  David, 
the   Servant  of  the  Lord. 

j  rT^HE   trefpafs   of  the  wicked  man 
JL        fo   plain    and   open    lies  ; 
My  heart  concludes,  the  fear  of  COD 
is  not   before   his    eyes. 

2  For  in   his  own   deceitful  view 

felf-flatteries    abound  ; 
Till  his   iniquity  breaks    out,  » 

and  odious  is  found. 

3  The  words  that   iffue   from   his  mouth, 

are   vaiD   and   guileful    too  ; 
He  quite   hath  eeafed   to  be  wife, 
and  any  good   to  do. 

4  Yea,  when  he  lies   upon  his  bed, 

he  mifchief  meditates  ; 
He  fets  himfelf  in  no   good  way, 
nor  any  evil  hates. 

D  4  £2  Part  3 

X  The  Hebrew  comprehends  all  this  line. 


5<*  PSALM    XXXVI. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

j  Thy  mercy,   O  JEHOVAH  is 
within*  the  heav'ns  on   high; 
Thy  faithfuJnefs  does  alfo   reach 
above  the  cloudy  iky. 
6  Like  mountains  great  f  thy  rightcoufnefs  ! 
thy  judgments  a  great  deep  ! 
Both  man   and  beaft,  Thou  kindly  LORD 
do/l  condefcend  to   keep.  J 

y  O   God,   thy   loving-kindnefs    is 
of  wondrous   excellence: 
Therefore  in  fliudow    of  thy  wings, 
men's  Tons   put    confidence. 
ft  Ev'n   of  the  fatnefs   of  thy  houfe, 
they  to  the  .full  {hall  take  ; 
And  of  the  r-t'eam    of  thy  delights, 
to  drink  Thou   wilt   them  make. 

9  Becaufe  the  flowing  fpring  of  life, 
ever    abides    in    thee  'y 
And  in  thy  light,  the  light  of  grace 
and  glory   we  mail  fee. 

10  O   ilretch   thy  loving-kindnefs    forth 

to  all  who  Thee  do   know; 
And  to   all  thefe  of  upright  heart 
thy  righteoufnefs  ftill   (how. 

11  O  fuffer   not   the   foot   of  pride 

to  make  approach   to   me  ; 
Nor  by  the   hand    of  wicked   men 
let  me   removed   be. 

12  Lo,   There   they    all  are  fallen  down, 

who  work   iniquities  ; 
Down   are  they  caft,  and  never   (hall 
be    able   to   arife. 

PSALM 

•f  The  Hebrew  may  be  rentier1  d  either  the  Mountains  of  CoJ? 

or,  the  great  Mountains. 
%  The  Hebrew  figni  ties — freferve  and  keep. 


PSALM    XXXVIL  57 

PS  At  HA    XXXVII.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 

i   T7RET  not'  thy  felf  at  wicked  men, 
X        for   their   profperity  ; 
Nor   be  thou   envious  at  the  men 
who  work  iniquity. 
2  For  like  the  grafs  that  fiourifhed, 
cut  quickly  down   are    they  ; 
And  like  the  green  and  tender  herb, 
mall  wither  foon  away. 

3  Upon  JEHOVAH  put  tliy  trufc, 

and  be  thou  doing  good  ; 
So  {halt  thou  dwell  within  the  land, 
and  truth  |j  mail   be   thy   food. 

4  See  that  thou  fet  thy  heart's   deligk; 

chiefly  upon    the   LORD  ; 
Then    the  juft  wiihes    of  thy  heart' 
to   thee  He  will   afford. 

5  Upon  the  LORD  devolve  *  thy  way, 

by   faith    on    Him   depend  ; 
And  He    will   bring  thy  good  defigns 
to  a    moft  happy  end. 

6  Yea,,  like  the  mining   light   will   he 

thy    righteoufnefs    difplay  ;. 
And  He   thy  judgment   will  bring   forth 
clear-mining    as   noon-day, 

7  Reft  on  the  LORD,  and  patiently 

wait    for  Him;  fret    not  thou 
At  him    who    profpers    in   his   way 
in  ill   devices  now. 

8  All    wrath:  relinquiftv  #  utterly  ;  K 

ceafe   from  ram  anger  too  : 
In"  no   wife  fret  thy  felf,..  to-  move. 
thee  any    ill    to   do.. 

D   5  9  For 

\  Tn  the  Hebrew  MSW'fni  truth,  i.e.  not  tty  vxn,  nor 
the  Truth  of  Men,  but  of  God.  Deut.  viii.  3.  Mat.  iv.  xr. 
See  Montanus,  jfoenarfei,   Buxtorf,  Sebindler,   Bjxhncr,,  ' 

*  So  the  Hebrew,  Septuagint  and  ancient  Latin,. 


58  PSALM    XXXVII. 

9  For,    thofe  who  evil  doers   arjfr 

mall   be  cut  ofF  and  fail  j 
But  thofe  who  on  JEHOVAH  wait 
the  earth  inherit  (hall. 
10  For,  yet  a  little  while,  and  here 
the  wicked  mall  not  be ; 
Yea  thou  (halt  look  and  view  his  place, 
but  him  thou  fhalt  not  fee. 

ti  Whereas  the  meek  and  humble  mail 
the  earth  as  heirs  polTefs ; 
And   thankfully   delight  themfelves  « 

iii    pienteoufncfs   of  peace. 

[  2  Part.  ] 
12  The  wicked  plot  againft  the  jail: 

they  gnafh   their   teeth   and  foam  ; 
j 3  Eut  them  the  Lord  deiides,  and   fees 

their   fatal    day   wiil   come. 
14  The  wicked  forth  their  fword  have  drawn, 
and  bent   their   bow  have  they  ; 
To   caft   the  poor  and  needy  down, 
and    upright   men  to   flay. 

ij  But  their  own   fwords   into   their  hearts 
fhall    enter  fuddenly  ;. 
Their  bows  which  they  have  bent  fhall  att 
in    pieces   broken   be. 

16  The   little   that  a   righteous    man 

enjoys,   is   better  far, 
Than  when    to   many   wicked   join'd 
their  ftores    of  riches  are. 

17  For  of  ungodly  men  the  arms 

fhall    wholly   broken  be  ; 
But  thofe  who  righteous  are,  the  LORD 
will   hold   up    carefully. 
58-  The  LORD,  the  days   of  upright  men 
exactly   knows  ;   and  fure 
Their  promifed  inheritance 
>fox  ever   ftiall   endure*, 

»9  In 


PSALM    XXXVII.  59 

19  In  dangerous  and  evil  times, 

from  fhame  they  fhall  be  free  ; 
And  when  the  days  of  famine  come, 
they  fatisfy'd  fhall  be. 

20  But  wicked  men   (hall    perifh    foon  ; 

and  who   the  LORD  provoke, 
Shall   like  the  fat  of  lambs  confume,. 
and   vanifh   into   fmoke. 

[   3  Ptrt-1 

21  The  man   ungodly  borrows   much, 

and  takes   no    care  to   pay ; 
Whereas   the  jufl   man   mercy  mews, 
and   freely   gives    away. 
21  For   fuch  as   bleiTed  are  by  Him,  j| 
the   earth  inherit  (hall  : 
But  thofe  who  by  him   cur  fed   are, 
(hall  be  cut  off  and   fall. 

23  The  fleps  of  good  men  by  the   LORD 

are   ordered   aright ; 
And  in   their   good  and   righteous  way* 
He  takes   a   great  delight. 

24  Altho'  they   fall,   yet   fhaJl  they   not 

be  caft   down   utterly  ; 
Becaufe  JEHOVAH  with  his  hand 
upholds  them    carefully; 

25  Nor  in  my  youth,  nor   in    my   age, 

ev'n   to  my  hoary  head  ; 
Nor   have  I  feen  the  ju ft  forfook, 
nor  their  feed  begging  bread.  § 

26  He   fhews  his    mercy   ev'ry   day, 

and. lends  to  thole  who  need  j 
And  bleflings   he  behind   him   leaves/ 
to   all  his   godly  feed. 

27  Wherefore 


i.  e.  by  the  Lord,  ver.  28—20. 


jj  i.  e.  by  the  Lord,  w,   28 — 20. 

§  i,  e.  It  was  Then  (0  rare  in  Ifrafl,  (hat  Bawd  in  a}I  his  Tim  3 
had  never  feen  it,. 


6o  PSALM    XXXVII. 

37  Wherefore  from   evil   far   depart; 
do   good  ;  and   then    befure, 
Thou  malt  have  fuch    a   dwelling  place 
,as  ever  fhall  endure. 
2S  Becanfe  the  LORD  doth  judgment  love,., 
his    faints  forfakes  not    He  ; 
Kept    ever   are   they ;    but   cut   off 
the   linner's   race   fhall  be. 

29  The    juft  inherit  fhall  the    land, 

and   ever   therein  dwell. 

30  The  jufl  man's   mouth    does  wifdom  fpeak  ; 

his  tongue  right   judgment  tell. 

3 1  His  God's  pure   law   is   in   his  heart  y 

none    of  his    fteps   fhall   ftray. 

32  The   wicked  watchis  for  the  juft* 

and   feeks    for   him,   to   flay. 

33  But  yet  JEHOVAH  wiH  not  leave 

the   juft   man    in  his    hands  ; 
Nor  will   the   righteous   man   condemn, 
when   He   in  judgment  ftands. 

E  4  P*rt-  ] 

34  Wait  on   the   LORD,  and  keep   his  w*y  ; 

and  Thee   exalt  will   He, 
Th'  earth  jj   to    inherit,    when  cut  off 

the  wicked  thou  fhak  fee. 
}5  The  wicked  man    I  have  beheld 

in  dreadful    pow'r   and   pride  ? 
Ev'n   like  a   laurel  *  flourifhing, 

and  fpreading    far  and   wide. 

36  Neverthelefs  he  pafs'd  away, 

and,  )6   he.  quite   was    gone.; 
I  feavched    for  him,  but  could  find 
no  glimpfe  of  fuch  a  one. 

37  But" 

I  By  Earth  mzy  pofllbly  rc-e  be  meant  the  nczv  Earth  after  the 
Conflagration  of  This ;  ifai.  Ixv,  lxvi.  Mai.  iv.  2  Pet.  iii.  Uc. 
-when  this  Pfalm  and  afanj  otbcri  may  be  ulticateiy  ?.od 
^loiioufly  fulfilled^ 


PSALM    XXXVIII.         (Si 

37  But   mark   the  perfect,   and   obferve 

the  man   of  uprightnefs ; 
And  thou  (halt  fee,  that  of  this   man 
the"  latter  end  is  peace. 

38  Whereas  thofe  who  tranfgreflbrs   are, 

together  perifh  (hall  ; 
To  be  cut   off  mall  be  the  end 
of  men  ungodly   all. 

39  But   the   falvation   of  the  jufl 

does  from   JEHOVAH   come  ; 
And  he's   their   ftrengtb    to   whom  they  look 
in   times   moft  troublefome. 

40  Yea  help  and  free  them  will  the  LORD  ; 

he  will   defend  the  jufl 
From  wicked  men  ;   He   will  them   fave, 
becaufe   in  Him   they  trufl. 

psalm  xxxvnr. 

A  Pfalm  of  David,  to  bring  to  R&nembrancty 

1  T     ORD    in  thy  wrath   rebuke  me   not, 
I    J     Nor  in  thine  anger  me  chaflife  : 

2  For  fix'd  in  me  thine  arrows   are, 
And  fore  thine  hand  upon   me  lies.. 

3  No  foundnefs  is  there  in  my  flefh, 
Becaufe  thy  wrath  on   me  doth   lie  £ 
Nor  in  my  bones  is  any  reft, 
Becaufe  of  mine   iniquity.. 

4  Becaufe  my  many  trefpailes 

Pafs'd  o*er  my   head   and   paffing    are-; 
And  as*  mighty  burden,  they 
Too   heavy   prefs  for  me  to   bear. 

5  My  wounds  are  noifome  and  corrupt  ; 
My   foolifhnefs   has  made  them  fo  : 

6  I'm   bent  and  greatly   bowed  down* 
I   all  day  long  a   mourning  go. 

1  Fill'd  are  my  loins  with  loathfome  fores, 
And  in   my  flefh   is   no   found  part : 

8  I  weak  and  forely  broken  am, 

I  roar  in  anguifli  of  my  heart,  [2  Parti 


62         PSALM    XXXVIII. 

[  2  Part.   ] 
9  Lord,  with  Thee  is   my  whole  defire, 

My  groaning  is   not  hid  from  Thee : 
i©  My  heart  pants  hard,  my  ftrength   all    failsr 

And  mine  eye  fight  is  gone  from  me. 
ii   My  lover  and  familiar  friends 

Stand  far  off  from  my  noifome  fore  : 
My  neighbours  and  my  kindred  dear 
Aloof  ftand,  nor  come  near  me  more. 

12  Yea  they  who  feek  my  life,  Jay   fnares ; 
And  they  who  wifli    to  do   me  wrong, 
Speak  mifchief,  and   their  hearts   devife 
Deceits  againft  me   all   day  long. 

13  But  I,   as   deaf,  feem'd  not  to  hear  ; 
And  fiknt,  as   one  dumb  was  I  ; 

14  Was  like  a  man  *  that  did  not  hear. 
And   in  whofe   mouth  is  no  reply. 

J5  For  LORD,  ray   hope   againil  my  foes, 
Is  fixed  wholly  upon  Thee  ; 
And  Thou,  O  Lord  my  God,  I  truft 
Wilt  kindly  hear  and  anfwer  me. 

26  O  hear  Thou   roe  faid  I,  leafk  they 
Should   trinmph  over   me  with  pride  ; 
Themfelves  agaiaft    me    magnify, 
When  they  (hail  fee  my  feet  to  Hide. 

17  For  I  am   ready   now  to  halt, 
Thro*   grief  continually  with  me  ; 

18  Wherefore  my   faults   I  will  declare, 
And  for   my   fins  will   grieved   b£ 

19  But  lively  are  mine  enemies, 

Their  pow'r  moft  formidably   grows  ; 
They  multiply   with   great  eacreafe, 
Who   are   without   a   caufe   my   foes* 

20  Yea  thofe  who  ill  for  good  return, 
Are   to  me  deadly   enemies  ; 

And   thus    malicious    are,   becaufe 
I  what   is  good  Pftlfik  «*ed  prize. 


PS  A  L  M    XXXIX.  61 

2i  JEHOVAH,  O  forfake  me  not  ! 

My  God,  be  not  far  off  from   me  ! 
22  O  Lord,  who  my  falvation   art, 

Make  hafte  to  help  and  fet  me  free  I 

PSALM  XXXIX.     A  Pfi/m  of  David> 
i  T  Said,  I   to  my  ways  will   look, 

X     left  I  fin  with  my  tongue  ; 

With  curb  111  keep  my  mouth  while  I 
the    wicked  am   among. 

2  With  filence   I   as   dumb   abode, 

my  mouth   did  I   refrain 
From  fpeaking  good  ;  but  then   the  more 
excited    was  my  pain. 

3  My  heart  within  me   waxed  hot, 

while   I  was    muling    long  ; 
Until  the   fire   enkindied  was ; 
then  fpake  I  with   my   tongue. 

4  0  LORD,  teach  me  to  know  mine  end; 

and  meafure  of  my  days  ; 
How   fhort  it  is,  how  frail  I   am* 
how  fwift  my  time  decays. 

5  Lo,  Thou  my  days  haft  made  a  lpan, 

mine  age   is  nought   to   Thee : 

At  his   beft  ftate  fure  ev'ry  man, 

is  wholly   vanity.         (Selah.) 

6  Sure   man  walks  in  an  empty  mow, 

and   ftirs  himfelf  in  vain; 
Who  heaps  up  wealthy  but  knows  not  wh© 
mall  gather   all   his  gain* 
[  2  Part.  ] 
y  And  now,  O  Lord,  what  wait  I  for  I 
my  hope  19  fet  on  Thee  : 

8  Free  me  from  all  my  trefpafles  : 

the  fools  feoff  make   not   me. 

9  I  filent  was,   and  (hut  my  mouth, 

this  done  becaufe  Thou  haft  : 
10  Remove   thy   ftroke  away   from   ffiC ; 

by  thy  hands  Wow  I  wafte.  j  i  When 


<>4  PSALM    XL. 

ii  When  with  rebukes  Thou  chaftneft  man 
for    his    iniquity  ; 
His   beauty,   like  a   moth,  confumes  : 
fure  each    man's  vanity.  ( Selab.) 

3  2  LORD   hear   my   pray'r,  regard  my  tears,, 
give  ear  to  my  loud  cry  : 
For   as  my   fathers   all,  with   Thee, 
a  fojourner   am  I. 

15  O   fpare  me  for  a  little  fpace, 
and  ftrcngth  to   me   reftore 
Before,  by   death,   from   hence   I  go, 
and"  mall   be   here   no   more. 

PSALM    XL.     A  Pfalm  */ David. 

1  tT 7TTH  expe&ation  from   the   LORD, 

VV       I  waited  patiently  ; 
And  He   inclrn'd  to  pity   me, 
and  heard  my  humble  cry. 

2  Ke  brought  me  from  the   dreadful  pit, 

and   from  the    miry    clay  ; 
And  on  a  rock  he  fet  my  feet ; 
eftablifhed  my  way  : 

3  A   new  fong  put  He  in  my  "mouth, 

to  praife  our    God  on  high  ; 
Which  many  mall  behold,   and   fear, 
and  on  the  LORD  rely. 

4  O  greatly  blefled  are   the  men, 

who  in  the  LORD  confide  ; 
Who  value  not  the   proud,  nor   incb} 
as  turn  to  lies   afide.* 

[   2  Part.  ] 

5  O  LORD  my  God,  how   many  are 

the  wonders  thou  haft  wrought  ; 
What  multitudes   of  kindnefle*, 
towards  us   haft   thou   thought. 

6  Their  fum,  in  order,  never  can 

be    reckon'd   up  to  thee  : 
If  I  would  count  them,  they  are  more 
than  e'er  can  number'd  be*  7  Thou 


P  S  A  L  M    XL.  «5 

7  Thou  doft   no  facrince  of  beafts 
dot  orl'ring  now   defire  ; 
Sin  off 'rings    thou    required  not, 
nor  off'rings  made  by  fire  : 
$  But  mine  ear  pierceft :  *   then  faid   I, 

*  Lo  now   I    come   to  Thee^; 

«  As  in  the  volume  of  thy   book 

*  'tis   written  thus  of  me  •* 

"  To  do  thy  will,  is  my  delight, 

"  O  Thou   my  God  who  art  ! 
"  Yea  thy  whole  law  is  fixed  in 

"  the  centre  of  my  heart."  || 
9  "  I  in   the    congregation   great, 

"  thy   righteoufnefs   did  fhow: 
"  Lo,  I  have   not    refrain'd   my  lips, 

«  JEHOVAH   thou  ^oll  know. 

10  "  I  have  not  in  my  heart  conceal'd, 

"  thy  perfect   righteoufnefs  ; 
K  But  thy  falvation   have  declar'd, 

"  and  mown   thy  faithfulnefs. 
"  Neither  thy  great   benignity 

"  have   I  at   all    conceal'd ; 
"  Nor  from   the  congregation  great 

"  have   I   thy   truth    with-held." 

li  And  now  thy  tender   mercies,   LORD, 
with-hold  thou  not  from   me  : 
But  let  thy  mercy  and  thy  truth 
keep  me  continually. 
12  For   evils    more    than    can    be    told, 
encompafs  me  around  ; 
My  fins  fo  feize  and  hold  me  faft, 
that   they  my   fight  confound. 

They're   more   than  hairs   upon   my  head, 
my  heart  is   quite  difmay'd  : 
23  O  LORD,  be  pleas'd  to  refcue  me, 

LORD,  haften  to  my  aid.  [3  Part.] 

\  Thefc  Pafiages  in  ver.  7,  S,    arc  exprefly  applied  to  the  Man 
Christ  Jesus,  in  Htbt  x, 


*6  1^  fl   L  M     ALL 

[  3  fa*-  1 
14  With  fhame  be  they  confoimded,  who 
my    foul   to    ruin    aim ; 
Yea,  all   who   evil  wifh   to   me, 
be  driven   back  with  fhame. 
35  With  fname   their  fpito   mall   be   repaid, 
who  mock  my  hope  in  Thee  ; 
Who   fport  of  me  in    trouble    make, 
they   defolate  mall  be. 

16  Let  all  who  feek  Thee,  joy  in  Thee, 
who  firm   in  Thee   confide  ; 
Who  thy   faivation   love,  cry    out, 
«  the  LORD  be  magnify^." 
3  *j  I   poor  and   needy  am  ;  and   yet 
the   Lord  does  think  on  me  : 
For  thou  my  help  and  faviour  art : 
my  God  me  quickly  free. 

PSALM  XLL     A  Pfalm  of  David. 

I  ^\   Blefs'd  is  he  who   does  the  poor 
\J     coniider  and  relieve  !  || 
The  LORD   deliv'rance  will  to  him 
in   time  of  trouble  give. 
%  The  Lord  will  keep  and  make  him  live  ; 
on  earth  he  blefs'd  (hall  be  ; 
Thou   wilt   not  give  him  to  the  will 
of  any    enemy.    ' 

3  Upon  his  bed  of  languifhing, 

the  LORD  will  him  fuftain  ; 

Yea   thou  wilt  eafy   make  his   hcd, 

when   fick  or  feiz*d   with  pain. 

4  I  faid,  "  JEHOVAH  now  to  me 

**  thy  tender  grace  I  crave; 
*'  Heal   Thou  my  wounded  foul,  becau/e, 
"  I  finn'd  againft  Thee  have.*' 

5  Thofe 

\)  No  dottbt  the  Original  intends  (0  to  wjider  as  to  nliete, 


PSALM    XLI.  6j 

3  Thofe  men  who  are  mine   enemies, 
with   evil  me  defame : 
Their  fpeeches  arc—"  when  will  he  die, 
"  and  perifh  (hall  his  name  ?" 
6  And  when   they   come   to  vifit  me, 
they  wholly  fpeak   in  fraud  ; 
But  gather  evil   in   their  hearts, 
and  fpread  it  then  abroad. 
[  2  Part.  ] 
*l  My  foes  againft  me  all  confpire 
and   whifper  fecretly, 
Concerning  me  ;  to  work  my  hurt, 
they  plot  malicioufly. 

8  "With  joy  they  fay,  "  There   cleares  to  hi» 

"  fome  bad  difeafe  or  fore ; 
M  Which   mortifies  and  cafts  him   down, 
"  that  he  mail  rife  no  more." 

9  Yea,  ev'n  my  own  familiar  friend, 

on  whom   I  did  rely ; 
Who,  eat  my  bread,  yet  hath  his  heel 

a  gain  ft  me  lifted  high. 
jo  But  Thou,  O  LORD,  *e  merciful 

to  me,  I  humbly  pray  ; 
And  raife  me  up,  that  I   their  crimes 

may    properly   repay. 

ii  By  this  I  know  aiTuredly, 
I  favour'd  am  by  Thee  ; 
That  thou  alloweft  not  my  foes 
to   triumph   over   me. 
12  But  Thou,  in  mine  integrity, 
doft  always  me  fuftain  ; 
And  fetteft  me  before   thy  face 
for  ever  to  remain. 

X3  The  LORD,  the   God  of  Ifrael, 

hath  from   eternity 
Been  blefs'd,  and  mall   be  evermore? 
Amen,  Amen,  fay  we. 

PSALM 


69  PSALM    XLIL 

P  S  A  L  M    XLIl. 

X      A    S   the  chas'd    hart   with    vehemence 
jLjL     pants   for  the    cooling  brooks  ; 
So  pants  my  foul   for  Thee,  O    GOD, 
for   Thee    fo    longing    looks. 
1  My   foul   for   GOD,   the   living   God, 
does  thirft  exceedingly  : 
Oh,  when    before   the   face   of  GOD, 
come  and  appear  fhaJl  I  ! 

3  My  flowing  tears    have  been  to   me, 

as  food  by  night   and  day  ; 
While,    taunting,   conilantly   to  me, 
"  where  is  thy  God  ?"  they  fay. 

4  My  foul  is  poured  out  in   me, 

as  this    I   think   upon  ; 
How   to  GOD's  houfe  with  multitudes 
I  in   times  pail   have   gone ; 

With  them,  I  with  the  voice  of  joy 

and  praife  in  triumph   fung  ; 
With  multitudes,  who  as  we  went, 

with   joy   did   leap  along.  \ 

5  O  why  art  thou  caft  down  my  foul  \ 

and   why  in   fuch   diftrefs  ? 
Hope  thou  in  GOD  :  Him  praife  I  fhall  : 
for  health  %  is  from  his  face. 
[  2   Part.   ] 

6  My  God,  my  foul  is  quite  caft  down  ; 

Thee  therefore  mind  I  will, 
From   Jordan-land,  and   Hermon-mount, 

and  from  the  Mizar-hill.  * 
1  At    founding  of  thy   water-fpouts, 

deep  loud   to  deep  does  call  ;  |[ 
Thy  darning  waves   pafs   over  me, 

thy  rolling   billows  all.  8  His 

■f  In  the  Hebrew  'tis — the  Multitudes  leaping  with  the  Voice  of 
Ovation  [i.  c.  triumphing  Joy]  and  Praife :  the  Hebrew 
fign'ifymg— Leaping  with  Joy,  as  in  i  Sam.  xxt.  16.  So 
Mont  anus,  Ainfwortb,  and  Gejer. 

1  The  Hebrew  fignifies  both  Health,  Safety  and  Salvation. 

I  i.  e.  One  mounting  Wave  of  the  great  Deeps  roars  and  caila 
out  to  another  to  fellow* 


PSALM    XLIIL  69 

8  His   loving-kindncfs    yet  the   LORD, 

command   will  in  the   day  ; 
And  in  the  night  his  fongs  with    me  ; 
to  God  my   life   I'll   pray. 

9  To  God  my  rock,   I'll  fay,  «  O  why 

"  doft  Thou   forget  me  fo  ? 
"  Why  go  I   mourning  grievioufly, 
"  opprefTed  by   my  foe  :" 

IO  As  with  a  fword  within   my  bones, 
fo  me  my    foes  upbraid  ; 
While  ev'ry  day  they  fay  to  me,    . 
"  where   is   thy  God,  thy  aid  ?" 
li  My  foul,  O  wherefore  doft  thou  bow 
thy  felf  down  heavily  ? 
And  wherefore  fo  cifquieted, 
and  troubled  art  in   me  ? 

Hope  thou  in  GOD,  becaufe  I  fhali 

with   praife  Him    yet  advance  ; 
Who  is  my  God  ;  He  alfo   is 

health  J  of  my  countenance. 

PSALM    XLIIL 

3    TUDGE  me,  O  GOD,  and  plead  my  caufe 
J      with  nations   mercilefs  : 
And  from   the   men  of  guile  and  wrong, 

0  fend  thou   me   redrefs. 

2  For  of  my  ftrengtb  Thou   art  the   God : 

reject  me  why  doft  Thou  ? 
Why  go   I  mourning  grievoufly, 
oppreffed  by  the  foe  ? 

3  O   fend  thou  forth  thy  light  and  truth, 

let  them   conduct   me   near, 
And  bring  me  to    thy   holy   hill, 
and  to  thy   dwellings    there. 

4  Then  will  I  to  GOD's  altar   go, 

to  God,  my  higheft  joy  : 
Yea  Thee  to   praife,  O   GOD,  my  God, 

1  will  my  harp  employ. 

5  My 


73  PSALM    XLIV. 

5  My  foul,  O  wherefore  doft  thou  bow 

thy  felf  down   heavily  ? 

And  wherefore   fo   difquieted, 

and  troubled  art  in  me  ? 

6  Hope  thou  in  GOD  ;  becaufe  I  (hall 

with   praife   Him  yet  advance  ; 
Who  is  my  God  ;   He   alfo  is 
health  J  of  my  countenanoe. 

PSALM    XLIV. 
s  ^\  GOD,  our   fathers  oft   hare   told 
V_/     in   our  attentive   ears, 
Thy  wondrous  works   wrought  in  their  days, 
and  elder   time   than  theirs. 
%  Thy  hand  did   drive  the  heathen  out 
but  plant  them  in  their  place  : 
Thou   didit  the  heathen  people  wafte, 
but  thine  thou  didiV  incre*fe. 

$  For  'twas  not  their  own   fword,   to  them 

the   land's  pofleffion  gave  ; 
Nor  was  the   flrength   of  their  own   arm 

the  pow'r  that  did  them  fave  : 
But  Thy  right  hand,  thine   arm,   the  light 

that  mined   from  thy  face; 
Becaufe  on  them  thou  pleafed  waft 

thy   favour  free  to  place. 

4  Thou  art  my  king,  O  mighty  God  ; 

deliverances  *  command 
For  Jacob  in  his  deep  diftrefs, 
who  needs   thy  mighty  hand. 

5  Thro*  Thee,  as  with   an  horn,  we  will 

pufh  down  our  enemies  : 
We  thro*  thy  name  will  tread  down  thole 
who  up  againil  us  rife. 

6  Becaufe  it  is  not  in  my   bow 

that  I   affiance  have  ; 
Nor  is  it  any  fword  of  mine 

that  ever  can  me  fave.  7  But 

%  The  Hebrew  Word  is  the  fame  M  i«  the  feregning  Pto, 
4*r.  5  and  lU 


PSALM    XL1V.  71 

1  But  thou  haft   fav'd   us  from   our  foes, 
and  haters   put  to   fliame. 

8  In  GOD   we  all   the  day   triumph, 

and  ever  praife  thy  name 

[  2   Part,  ] 

9  But  now  thou  feem'ft  to  call  us  off; 

thou   Ihameft   us    alfo ; 
And  with  our  military  troops 

to   battle   doll  not  go. 
IO  Thou  mak'fl  us   from  our  enemies 

bafely   to   turn  our  back  ; 
And  they  who  hate   us,  for  themfelves 

our    fpoils   deferted,   take. 

li  As  fheep,  for  meat   and   flaughter    doom'de 
thou   giv'ft  us    to    their  hands ; 
And  fcatt'refl  our  poor   captives  through 
their   barb'rous,   heathen  lands. 

12  Thy  people  Thou  hall  fold  for  nought  % 

no  wealthier  art  thou  found : 

13  Thou    mak'll  us  a  reproach  and  fcofF 

to  all  our  neighbours   round. 

14  Yea  ev'h  among  the  heathen   Thou 

a  proverb  doll   us   make ; 
And   people   round   us    in    contempt 
at  us   their  heads  to  fhake. 

15  Before   our   eyes    continually 

appears  our   great  difgrace  ; 
And   wholly  with  confounding  flume 
o'er-covered  is  our  face  ; 

16  By  reafon  of  the  voice  of  him 

who   taunt9    and   vilifies  ; 
By  reafon  of  the  faces  *  of 
our  fpiteful  enemies. 

[  3  Part,  j 

17  But  tho*  all  this  be  come  on  as ; 

yet  we  forget  not  thee, 
jNor    falfly    to    thy    covenant 
behave  eur  ielves  do  we, 

1%  No? 


7*  PSALM    XLV. 

1 8  Nor  have  our  hearts  returned  back, 

nor   feet  from    thy   way   ftray'd  ; 

19  Tho'   us  Thou  break'ft  in  dragons  dens, 

and  cov'reft   in   death's  made. 

2©  If  our  God's  name  forget,  or  hands 
to  a  flrange  God  we  raife; 

21  Would  not  GOD  find  it  eut  ?  who  fees 

the  heart's   moll   hidden   ways. 

22  Yet  we're  as  flieep  to  flaughter  doom'd, 

kill'd  for  thy  fake   all   day  : 

23  Wake  herd  I  why  fleep'ft  Thou  ?  rife  !  nor  us 

for  ever  atft  away. 

24  Thy  countenance  away  from  us, 

O  wherefore  doft  Thou  hide  ? 
Why  doft  Thou  mindlefs  of  our  grief, 

and  great  diftrefs,   abide  ? 
;25  For  down   to  duft  our  foul  is  bowM, 

to   earth  our   bellies   cleave  ; 
3r6  O  rife   our   mighty  heip,  and   us 

in  thy  great  mercy   lave. 

PSALM    XLV.     A  Song  of  loves. 

{The  Glories  of  CHRIST  in  bis  Royal  QbaraEler,  represented  by 
King  Solomon  ;  with  the  Beauty  and  Happinefs  of  bis  Spoufe 
the  Church,  represented  by   King  Pharoah'j  Daughter.} 

[   i  Part,  Addrefs  to  CHRIST.   ] 

1  £~^  OOD  matter  fprings  up  (1)  in  my  heart; 
VJf     mj^ words  refpeft  the  King;  (2) 
And  ready   as  a  writer's  pen 

my  tongue   his  praife  to  ling. 

2  O  fairer   than  the  fons  of  men  ;  (3) 

what   wondrous   grace   we    fee 
PourM  on  thy  lips ;  (4)  GOD  therefore  hath 
for  ever  blefTed  Thee.  n-,, 

3  Thy 

{j)  The  Hebrew  Teems  to  fignify  Boiling  up  as  a  living  Sprfng 
of  clear,  fweet  and  overflowing  Water. 

(2)  The  Chaldee  renders  it- — 0  King  Messiah  !  i.  e.  not  fb 
much  King  Solomon  the  Typical  Messiah,  as  Christ  the 
Real,  inexpieffibly  furpafiing. 

(3)  i.  e.  on  Account  of  thy  moft  amiable  Excellencies. 

(4)  i.  e.  the  moft  gracious  Words  of  thy  Lips  in  Scripture.; 
Luke  if,  16— 22,     Job*  vii,  46, 


PSALM    XLV.        .    73 

i  Thy  conqu'ring  fword,  (5)  O  mighty  one, 
gird  Thou    upon   thy    thigh  ;  (6) 
With   glorious    magnificence 
and    comely    majefty  : 

4  Ride   profp'rous   on   the  word  of  truth, 

meeknefs   and    righteoufnefs  ; 
And  thy  right  hand  mall  wonders   mow 
of  terror   and   of  grace.  (7) 

5  Within  the   hearts  of  the   King's    foes,  (8) 

thine  arrows   fharp  mail   be  ;  (9) 
Whereby  the  people  overcome, 
fhall   fall   down   under   Thee. 

6  Thy  univerfal    throne,   O  GOD, 

ever   and   ever    is  ; 
The  fcepter   of  thy   kingdom   fway'd 
in    perfect  righteoufnefs. 

7  Thou  loveft   right,  and  hateft  ill  ; 

fo   GOD   thy   God   in  love 

Anointed   Thee   with   oil   of  joy 

thy  fellow-kings  above.   (10) 

8  Thy  fragrant   robes   with  aloes,   myrrh, 

and   caflia,   which   Thee   clad, 
Brought  from   the  iv'ry  palaces,  (11) 
confpire  to   make   Thee  glad. 

E  9  la 

(5)1.  e.  Thine  all- conquering  Power,  Authority  and  Spirit. 

(6)  i.  e.  in  Readinefs  to  conquer  all  before  Thee. 

(7)  See  thefe  two  Verfes,    3  and  4,  gloriouGy  exemplified  in 
Christ,  Rev.  xix.  11— 16. 

(8)  i.  e.  Thine  own  Foes  j  who  are  rebellious  Sinners. 

(9)  Thine  Arrows  of  powerful  Conviction  and  Illumination. 

(10)  i.  e.  above  all  the  Kings,  Conquerors,  and  Rulers  in  the 
World  ;  yea  far  above  all  Principalities  and  Powers,  and 
every  Creature  named  both  in  Earth  andHeaven.-Re-z/.xix.re. 
Eph.  i,  ai,  And  thefe  two  Verjei  6,  7,  are  exprefly  applied 
to  Christ  in  Heb.  i.  7,  8.  rr 

(it)  i.  e.  Thy  Robes  of  Righteoufnefs,  Beneficence  and  Holinefs  ; 
inexpreffibly  more  fragrant  than  thofc  in  the  fpicy  Chambers 
of  the  Ivory  Palaces  of  Solomon* 


74  PSALM    XLV. 

9  In  thy  bright  circles    (12)  round  thy  view 
kings  daughters  happy  ftand  ; 
And   the    fair    Queen  (13)    in   ophir-gold 
appears   at  thy    right  hand. 

[   2  Part,  Addrefs   to   the  Church,  ] 

10  O   daughter,   hearken  and  behold, 

do    thou  incline    thine    ear  : 

See  thine  own  people  thou  forget 

and    father's  houfe  fo    dear. 

11  Then  will  thy  beauty  to  the  King; 

ftili    more   delightful   be  : 
Yet   mull  thcu   humbly   worfhip    Him, 
becaufe    thy   Lord  is    He. 

12  The  daughter  of  rich  Tyre  Thall  fo.o.n 

her   prefents    bring  to   thee  ; 
And  richeft   people   feek   that  they 
may    in    thy    favour  be. 

33  But  the  King's    Daughter   is   within 

all  glorious    to    behold;  (14) 
And   all   her    robes  are  bright'ned  with 
embroideries    of  gold.   (15) 

34  Thus   to   the  King  in  royal   robes, 

with  needles  richly  wrought, 
And    fellow-virgins  (16)  in    her  train, 
me  mail  to   Thee  be   brought. 

15  With 

(12)  Interpreters  are  greatly  divided  about  the  Meaning  of  tbi3 
Hebrew  Word  j  but  considering  the  Circles  of  Noble  Perfons 
about  Kings  and  Queens  in  their  Royal  Palaces,  This  feems 
to  be  the  real  Idea  hinted. 

(13)  As  KingPharoaFs  Daughter  is  called  the  Wife  of  Solomon , 
for  whom  he  built  a  diftfnguifli'd  Palace,  2  Cbron.  riii.  11  j 
fhe  feems  to  be  the  gluten  Here  and  in  the  following 
Part  of  the  Pialm  deienbed,  as  a  fplendid  Emblem  of  the 
Church  of  CHRIST. 

(14)  i.  e.  as  to  her  internal  Graces,  Endowments,  Ideas  and  Joys. 

(15)  i.  e.  her  ihining  Robes  of  external  Righteoufnefs,  Benignity 
and  Hojinefs, 

(16)  Virgins  of  Honour ,  chofen  Companions  for  Queens  :  and  may 
mean  thofe  diiHnguifhingly  Fair  and  Pure  Souls  who  have 
the  Honour  of  being  aifociaicd  io  the  Church  of  Christ* 


PSALM    XLVI.  75 

15  With   gladnefs    and   increafing  joy, 

they'r  brought  along  in  flate, 
Till   all   exulting   enter    in 
the    royal    palace    gate. 

16  In   their  Head   who   thy  fathers   are 

thy   lovely   fons    mall    be  ; 
Whom  thou   may'il  place  in  all  the  earth 
in    princely   dignity. 

17  By  this   my  fong  in  ages   all, 

I  will   tranfmit  thy  name, 
And   make    the   world   with  one  confent 
thy  endlefs   praife  proclaim. 

PSALM    XLVI. 

1  £~^  OD   is  our  refuge,  ftrength  and  fliield, 
V_I     When  numerous  evils   us  furround  y 
In    troubles  great  a   prefent   help,  * 

And  always    ready   to    be  found.  * 

2  Therefore  we   will  not  be  afraid, 
Altho'  the  earth  removed  be, 
Altho'  the  mountains  mould  be  hurl'd 
Into  the  center   of  the  fea. 

3  Nor  tho'  the  feas  tempefluous  waves 
Should  all  diflurb'd  a  roaring  make, 
Nor   tho*   her   waters  fwelling   rage 

Should  make  the  lofty  mountains  quake.  (Se/aL) 

4  There  is  a  river  whofe  pure  fit  earns 
The  city  of  our  GOD  make  glad; 
The  holy  place  which  the  moll  high 
Hath  happily  his   dwelling  made. 

5  For   GOD    is   in   the   midfl  of  her  ; 
Therefore  be   moved  mall   not  me  ; 
As  early  morning  doth  appear 
GOD  will   her   mighty  helper   be, 

6  The  nations  make  tumultuous  noife9 
The  kingdoms    greatly   moved   are  ; 
He    utters   forth  his    thundering  voice, 
And  all  the  earth   difTolves  with  fear. 

E  2  7  The 


76  PSALM    XLVII. 

7  The  LORD  of  armies  is   with   us, 
Who    firmly   upon   Him  rely  ; 
The    God  of  Jacob  is  for  us 

A  refuge  fafe   and  fure  on   high.  *  ( S?!ah.) 

8  O  come,    behold  what    wondrous    works 
The   mighty  LORD  around   hath    wrought ; 
What   fearful    deflations    He 

Upon  the  earth  hath  juftly   brought. 

9  But   yet  throughout    the   wearied   earth 
Wars  into   peace  he   kindly   turns, 

The  fpear  he    cuts,  the  bow   he    breaks, 
In    fire   the    martial    chariot  burns. 
io  Be  flill  and  know  that  I  am  GOD  ! 
I    will   o'er   all   exalted    be  ; 
The   nations    fhall    exalt   my   name, 
The  earth   fupreamly  honour   me. 

ii  The   LORD   of  armies  is   with   us4 
Who    firmly    upon    Him    rely  j 
The  God  of  Jacob   is  for   us 
A  refuge  fafe  and  fure    on   high.  *  ( Selab.) 

P  S  A  L  M    XLVII. 

1  f^\    All  ye   people   clap  your   hands, 

V^/  To  GOD   with  fhouts   of  triumph  fing : 

2  For  dreadful  is  the   LORD  moft  high, 
O'er  all   the    earth    a   mighty  King. 

3  To   us  the  people  he  fubdues  ; 
Lays   nations   at  our    feet  in   fear  : 

4  For    us    an    heritage    he  chofe, 

The  glory  of  his   Jacob  dear.  (Selah.) 

5  GOD    is  gone   up  in  fhouts    of  joy, 

The    LORD    with  noife    the   trumpets   raife  : 

6  Sing  praife    to  GOD,  fing  praife  aloud  ; 
Siflg  praifes    to    our   King,  fing  praife. 

7  For  GOD    of  all   the  earth    is  King  ; 
With  all  your   (kill  his   praife  be  (hown  : 

8  GOD   over   all  the   nations    reigns  ; 
GOD   fits  upon  his    holy  throne. 

9  To 


PSALM    XLVII.  77 

9  To  people  own'd  by   Abr'ham's  God 
The   princes   of  the    nations    fly  : 
The  fhields   of  th'  earth  to  GOD  belong ; 
O   how  is   He  exalted  high  ! 

[  Hallelujah-Metre.   ] 

i   yj"E    people   all   abroad  ! 

-*•       clap  hands    and  voices    raife 
In  honour  to   our    GOD, 
and  loudly   fing   his   praife. 

2  The  LORD   moil   high 

a  dreadful  King, 
rules  ev'ry  thing 
With   majefty. 

3  Whole  nations    of  our  foes 

beneath   our  feet   has   thrown  : 

4  A  fair   poffeflion  chofe 

for   us  who    are  his  own : 
The   dignity 
of    Ifrael 
belov'd   fo   well 
By   the   moft   High.       (Selah.) 

5  GOD   is   gone  up    on  high, 

the   LORD    with    trumpets  found, 
With    fhouts   triumphantly  : 

6  O  praife  our  GOD  renown'd :. 

His   praifes    fing, 

yea   loudly    raife 

your   voice  to   praife 
Our   fov'reign   king.  , 

7  For   GOD  is  fov'reign  King 

of  all    the    fpacious  .  earth  : 
With    underftanding   fing 

his  praife   with  facred  mirth  : 

8  GOD    reigns  alone, 

the    nations  itills  ; 
GOD    fits,  and  fills 
Eis  holy    throne. 

E  3  9  The 


78  PSALM    XLVIII. 

9  The  princes   gath'red  are, 

the   princes   of  all    lands, 
.And    people    far    and  near 

whom  Abr 'ham's    God   commands  : 
The  fhields   of  all 
the    eaith    abroad 
belong  to  GOD  3 
Him    high   extol  I 

PSALM    XLVIII. 

1  (T*  REAT  is  JEHOVAH  !  greatly  He 
V_J      is    to   be   prais'd   on   high, 
Within  the  city  of  our  God, 

his   mount  of  fanclity. 

2  How   beauteoufly  mount   Zion   flahds  I 

her  northern    fides   how  fair  ? 

She  is   ths  joy   of  all  the   earth  ; 

the   great  King's    city   there  ! 

3  GOD    in    her  palaces   is    known 

to   be    a   refuge  high. 

4  For  ro,  the   kings   affembled  were, 

but    pafs'd    together   by. 

5  They  faw  her,  and  fo  marvelled, 

they   dare   not  near  her  flay  ; 
But    troubled   and  affrighted   were, 
and  hafl'ned   fall  away. 

6  Yea  then   fuch   terror   feiz'-d  on  them, 

fuch    painful    agonie3, 
As   on   a  lab' ring   woman   when 
her    pangs    upon    her   feize. 

7  As    when    Thou    raifefl    eaflern  florins 

on    the    tumultuous   fea, 
Thou  didft  the  fhips   of  Tarfliifh   break* 
and  drive   our  foes   away. 
[   2   Part.   ] 

8  In    city  of  the   LORD  of  hods, 

we   fee,  as   we   were  told 
In   our   God's    city,  that   our  GOD 
will   ever  her   uphold.      (Selah.) 

9  ® 


PSALM     XLIX.  fy 

9  0  GOD,  our  thoughts   are  oft  employ  \1 
on   thy    benignity  ; 
But  moft  of  all  when   we   are   in 
thy   houfe   of  fanclity. 
10  For  as  thy  name,  O    GOD,  fo    through 
the  earth  extends   thy  praife  ; 
And  thy  right  hand  we  know  is  full 
of  righteoufnefs    always. 

ii   O  let  mount  Zion  joyful   be, 
and  Judah's  daughters   glad ; 
Becaufe   of  all  thy  judgments   now, 
fo   wondrouily  difplay'd. 

12  Walk  forth  and  compafs   Zion  round, 

and  air  about   her  go; 
Her  ftately    tow'rs   diftinclly   count, 
and  all   their   numbers  know. 

13  Attentively    her   bulwarks    mark, 

her  palaces   view  well  ; 
That   to  the  age   to   come  ye  may 
her  flrength  and  beauty   tell. 

14  Becaufe  this  GOD  is  our's  ;  our  God 

for   evermore   is   he  ; 
Therefore  cur  never-failing  guide, 
.  He    ev'n    to   death    will  be. 

PSALM  XLIX. 

1  "[TEAR,  this   all  people,  and   give   ear, 
Jf~J_     all    in   the   world   who   dwell  ; 

2  Both   low  and  high,  both   rich    and  poor, 

together   liften  well. 

3  I    with   my  mouth  variety 

of  wifdom   will   impart, 
And  prudent  knowledge  riling  from 
the  muling  of  my  heart. 

4  To    an    inftructive    parable 

I'll  firft  incline  mine  ear  : 
And  then  will   with    my  Cong  and  harp, 
my  myftery  declare. 

E  4  5  Why 


8o  PSALM    XL1X. 

5  Why  mould  I  fear  in  evil  days, 

when  the  iniquities 
Of  my  ft  ray   feet    fur  round   me    with 
hofts    of  calamities  ? 

£   2  Part.  ] 

6  Thofe  men  who  make   their  great   eftates  * 

their   ftay   whereon    to   truft, 
Or   in   th'  abundance    of  their    wealth 
who    confidently    boaft  ; 

7  Yet  none  of  them   his    brother    can 

by  any   means   redeem, 
Neither   to    GOD  can  ever   pay 
a    ranfom   meet  for   him. 

8  So    dear    his   life's   redemption   is, 

that    bought  it  cannot   be  ; 

9  That  he   mould   ftill    for   ever  live, 

and   not   corruption   fee. 
JO  For  they  mud   fee  that  wife  men   die, 
the   fool,    the   brutifh    too, 
AW   peiiih,    and   their   great   eftates  jj 
to   others   leave   they    do. 

1 1  They   think  their   houfes   ever  ftand, 

and    dwelling   places   (hall 
Laft   to    all   ages  ;  and   their  lands 
by    their   own    names   they  call  : 

12  But   fuch    men   in  their  honour  fet 

continue  but  a  night  ; 
ArA   like   the  beafts  are  foon  cut   off, 
and  quickly  perifh  quite. 

13  This  way  of  theirs,  their  folly  is  : 

and  yet  their  mouth   %  p-nc*   way 
Their  fons    approve,   and  will  purfue  ; 
like  foolifh   fheep  are  they. 

14  They 

y  The  fame  Word  in  Hebrew  with  That  roark'd  thus  •  in  the 

6th  vcrfe,  and  therefore  fignifies  the  fameTbing, 
t  Hob,  i.  e.  Their  ftupid  Speeches  and  Advices. 


PSALM    XL1X.  Si 

14  They  in  the  fepulchre  *   are  laid, 

and  death  /hall    them   devour  ; 
But  in  the   morning  oveqjjhem 
the  juft  fnall    have  the  pow'r. 

And  from   the  houfes  where  they  dwell, 

the   beauty  now  they  have, 
Shall    utterly    confume   away 

in    the    corrupting    grave. 

15  But  GOD    my  foul   will  from  the  powrr 

ev'n   of  the   grave  redeem  ; 
And  he   will  furely  me  receive 

to  live   in  blifs   with   him.     (Selah.) 

I   3   Part.  ] 

16  Be   not   difturb'd  when  thou  doft  fee 

riches    to   any   flow, 
Nor   when   the  glory   of  his  houfe 
abundantly   does  grow. 
27  For  he  mall  carry  nothing  hence, 
when   death  his    days    mall  end  'r 
Nor  {hall   his   glory  after   him. 
into  the  grave   defcend. 

18  Tho*   he  his  foul  doth  greatly  blefs, 

while   he  on  earth  does   live  ; 
And  when  thou    to   thy  felf  doll  well, 
men    will   thee    praifes   give  ; 

19  Yet  in  their  fathers   fteps  they  tread  ; 

and   when  like  them  they   die, 
Their   wretched  anceftors   and   they 
in  utter  darknefs    lie. 

20  For  man  how  great  fbever   here, 

unlefs    he's    truly    wife  ; 
As    like  a   fenfual   beaft  he  lives, 
fo   like   a  beafl'  he  dies. 

E  5  PSALM 


82  PSALM    L 

P  S  A  L  M    L.     A  Pfalm  of  Afaph." 

a  ^T^HEGodJofGODS^jheLORDdothfpeak, 
X        and  to   dfc  earth  proclaim  ; 
Ev'n    from  the   rifing  of  the  fun 
to  fetting  of  the   fame." 

2  From   out  of  Zion's   facred  hill, 

which,  by   his  dwelling  there, 
Of  beauty    the  perfection  is, 
.  GOD  mining   doth   appear. 

3  Behold  our  God  in  glory  comes, 

nor    filent  in   the  fkies  ; 
Before   him  goes  devouring  fire, 
great  f  ftorms    around    him    rife. 

4  To    heav'n    He    calls   out  from   on   high, 

and   to    the   earth   below, 
That   all   his  equal  judgment  may 
on  his   own  people   know. 

5  Gather  to  me,  fays   he,   my  faints, 

bring  them   before   mine  eyes  ; 
Who   have   a  covenant  confirm'd 
with  me  by   facrifice. 

6  And  now  the  heav'ns   moft  clearly   mall 

his    righteoufnefs    make   known  ; 
Becaufe  the   mighty  GOD   Himfelf, 
13  fov'reign  judge  alone.     ( Stlah*) 
[   2   Part    ] 

7  Hear   O   my   people  Ifrael  ! 

and  I   will   fpeak   on  high  ; 
Yea  I   will   teflify    to   thee, 
that  GOD,   thy   God,   am  I. 

8  For  want   of  facrifices   I 

will  find  no  fault  with  thee, 
Or  that    burnt  off'rings  have  not  been, 
continually   with    me. 

9  II! 

%  InHebreiv  theWords  are  /El  JElohiu,  which  fignify — The 

God  of  GODS  :  and  fo  the  Septuagint,  Syriack  and  Arabick. 
\  The  Hebrew  fignifies  a  Stgrm  wading  great,  mighty,  wit* 
ment  and  terrible. 


PSALM    L  83 

9  111  take  qo  bullocks  from  thy  flails, 
nor    goats    from    folds   of  thine  : 

10  For  fbrreft-beafts   and    cattle   on 

a  thoufand    hills    are    mine. 

1 1  The  fowls  that  on   the  mountains   fly, 

are    all    to   me  well   known  ; 
And  all    wild  beafts  which   range  the  fields, 
are    with  me  as  my    own. 

12  If  hunger  ever   could  me   feize, 

I  would   not  tell  it   thee  ; 
For   the   whole    world  and   fulnefs    of 

the   whole   belong   to   raer 
J 3  Or   eat  the  flefh  of  beeves,  or  drink 

the  blood    of  goats  mail  I  ? 
14  Thanks   offer  thou  to  GOD,  and  pay 

thy  vows   to  the   moil  high. 

55  And  in   the   day   of  thy   diftrefs, 
confiding,    to    me   cry  • 
And  I'll    deliver   thee,  and  then 
thou  malt   me   glorify. 

[   3    Part.   ] 

16  But   to    the    wicked   GOD    doth    fay  ; 

"  how   dar'ft  thou   to  proclaim 
My   ftatutes  ?  or  with   thy  vile  mouth 
my  covenant    to   name  ? 

17  Whereas  thou  hateft  difcipline, 

nor   wilt   inflrucled    be ; 
And  all   my  words,  as  nothing  worth, 
thou   cafteft    off  from   thee. 

28  When  thou   dofh  fee  a   thief,   with  him 
thou  joineft    with   thy  heart; 
Yea  with   unclean    adulterers 
thou  a  partaker    art. 
1-9  Thy   mouth  to   evil  thou  doft  give, 

thy  tongue    deceit    to   frame, 
20  Againfl  *thy  brother  fit  and  fpeak, 
thy   mother's   fort  defame, 

21  Tfeff 


84  P  S  A  L  M    LI. 

21  Ihefe  things   thou   did  ft  :  I  filent  was  : 

and  thou   didfl  me    furmife 
Quite  like  thy  fetf;  I'll   thee  reprove, 
and   rank   them  in    thine  eyes. 

22  O   now  confide r  this,   all    ye 

who    God   forgotten   have  ; 
Left  I   mould  you    in   pieces   tear, 
and   there   be   none   to  fave. 

23  But  he  whofe   facrifice   is   praife, 

great  glory  yields   to    me  ; 
Ahd  he    who    orders  right  his  way 
mall  GOD's   falvation   fee. 

PSALM    LI. 

A  PJalrn  ^/"David,  <when  Nathan  the  Prophet  came 
to  him,  after  he  bad  gone  in  to  Bathfheba. 

1  f~\   GOD,  have  mercy  upon  me, 
V^/     according    to   thy  grace  ; 
According  to   thy  mercies   great, 

my  trefpaffes   efface. 

2  O  warn   me  throughly   from  my  guilt, 

and  from  my  fin   me  clear  ; 

3  For  I  my  trefpafs  own  ;  my   fins 

before   me  ftill   appear. 

4  Againft  Thee,  Thee  alone,   I  finn'd ; 

the   crime  was  in   thy  fight  : 
So   when   Thou   fpeakeft   Thou   art  juffc; 
and  thy   whole   judgment    right. 

5  Behold,   how   in    iniquity 

I    did   my   fhape    receive  ; 
And  that  my  mother  flainM  with  fin, 
in  fin  did  m»  conceive. 

6  Beholds   thou  doft   defire  the   truth 

within   the   inward    part  : 
O  do  Thou   make  me  wrfdorn  know 
in  fee  ret  of  my  hean. 

7  With 


P  S  A  L  M    LI.  85 

7  With  fprinkling  hyffop  cleanfe   Thou  me, 

and   I   mail    fpotlefs    grow  : 
O  waili  thou  me,   and  then  mail  I 
be  whiter   than  the   fnow. 
[   2   Part.  ] 

8  Of  joy   and  gladnefs    make  Thou  me 

to  hear  again   the  voice  ; 
That  Co  the  bones   which   Thou   haft  broke 
may   yet   again    rejoice. 

9  From  the  beholding  of  my  (Ins. 

O   turn    away  thy   face  \ 

And   all    my   vile    iniquities 

O  do  Thou   quite  efface. 

10  Clean  heart  O   GOD,  in  me  create  ; 

renew  a   fpirit   right 
In  me:  (11)   and   caft  me  not  away 

out  of  thy    happy  fight  : 
Nor  thy   pure  Spirit  from  me  take- 

12  Reftore   the  joy   to  me, 
Of  thy   falvation,   and   uphold 

me  #ath   thy   fpirit  free. 

13  Then  will   I  teach  thy  ways  to  thofe 

who  work  iniquity  'r 
And  happily  fhall  finners  then, 
converted  be   to   Thee. 

[    3   Part.  J 

14  O   GOD  !    of  my  falvation   God  !  * 

free  me   from   guilt  of  blood  ; 
And  of  thy  faving  righteoufnefs 
my  tongue    fhall    fing    aloud. 

15  Lord,  open  Thou  my  lips,  and  forth 

my   mouth   thy    praife   fhall   fing  z. 

16  For  Thou  defir'ft   not   facrifice  y. 

or  I  the  fame  would  bring : 

Burnt  offerings  Thou  delight'ft  not  in* 

17  Of  GOD  the   facrifice 

A  fpirit  broke  :  a  contrite  heart, 

GOD,  Thou  wilt  not  defpife..  r8  la 


86  P  S  A  L  M    LI. 

18  In  thy  good  pleafure,  O  do  good 

to  Zion  bounteoufly  : 
The  walls  of  thy   Jerufalem, 
O   build  Thou   up  on  high. 

19  The  facrifice    of  righteoufnefs 

mail  pleafe  Thee  then  ;  and  they 
Burnt  ofTrings,  whole  burnt  offerings,  calves,, 
will  on  thine   altar  lay. 

[  Long   Metre.  ] 

1  /^V   GOD  !    have  mercy  upon  me, 
V^/     According  to  thy   bounteous  grace; 
And  in   thy  mercies   multitude  * 

My  many  trefpaffes  efface. 

2  O  wafh   me  throughly   from  my  guilt. 
And  fiom  my  fin  me  purify  :" 

3  For  all  my  (ins  I  freely  own ; 
My  fin  is  always  in   mine  eye. 

4  Againft  Thee,    Thee  aFone,  I    finn'd, 
This   crime  committed  in    thy   fight  ; 

So  when   Thou  fpeakeft,   Thou   art  jufl, 
Thy  judgment  Hands   intirely  righ'c. 

5  Behold,   I   with    abafement  own, 
I    fhap'd  was   in  iniquity  ; 

And  that  my  mother  ftain'd  with  fin,. 
She    ev'n   in  fin   conceived  me. 

6  Behold,  it  is    the  truth  that    Thou 
Defireft  in  the  inward   part  : 

O   do  thou  make  me  wifdom  know 
Within   the  fecret  of  my  heart. 

7  With  fprinkling  hyflbp  cleanfe   Thou  me, 
And  I  mail   pure   and   fpotlefs   grow  : 

O   wafh    and   make  me   wholly   clean  ; 
AndjI  fhall   whiter  be  than  fnow. 
[   2    Part.   } 
I  Of  joy  and  gladnefs  make  Thou   me, 
To  hear    again   the   welcome   voice  ; 
That  fo  the  bones  which  Thou  hail  broke 
May    happily  again  rejoice.  From 


P  S  A  L  M    LI.  87 

q  From  the  beholding  of  my  fins 
For  ever  turn  away  thine  eyes  ; 
And   do    Thou    utterly   efface 
All  my  abhorr'd   iniquities. 

10  O  GOD,  create  in   me  an  heart 
Both   clean    and   holy   in  thy  fights 
And   in  me,  O  do  thou   renew 

A  fpirit  Heady  J  and    upright.  J 

1 1  Caft  me  not  from  thy  face  ;  nor  take 
Thy  Holy   Spirit  now  from   me  : 

12  Reftore   me   thy  falvation's  joy: 
Uphold  me  with  thy  fpirit  free. 

13  Then   from  a  blefs'd  experience   I 
Will  finners  teach    thy  ha|>py  ways  * 
And  finners  fliall  converted  be, 

To  Thee,   to  love,  obey  and   praife. 

[   3  Part.  J 

34  O  GOD  !    of  my  falvation  God  !  * 
Deliver  me  from  guilt   of  blbod  ; 
And  of  thy    faving  righteoufnefs 
My  joyful  tongue  will  fing  aloud. 

15  Lord,  open  Thou  thefe  lips  of  mine^ 
Which   by  my  fin  fan:  clofed  are  : 
And  then    will   my  enlarged    mouth 
Thy   praifes   publickly   declare. 

26  For  Thou  defitf*ft  not  facrifice 

Of  beafts,  that  I   might  bring  to  Thee  5 
Nor  in   burnt  off 'rings  doll:  delight, 
That  Thou  fhould'fV  them   accept    of  me> 

17  But  'tis  a  fpirit  broke   for  fin* 
Is   GOD's  approved   facrifice  : 
A  broken  and  a  contrite  heart, 
O  GOD,  Thou  never  wilt  defpife. 

18  And 

%  The  Hebrew  feems  to  comprehend  both  thefe  Iue-s, 


88  PSALM    LII. 

18  And  now  to   Zion   O  do  good 

In   thy  good  pleafure   bounteoully ; 

And  of  our  dear   Jerusalem 

Do  Thou   build   up  the  walls   on  high. 

19  Then  Thou  (halt   with   the  facrifice 
Of  righteoufnefs   well    pleafed   be  ; 

Burnt  off 'rings,  whole  burnt  off  rings,  calves, 
They'll   at   thine   altar    offer   Thee. 

P  S  AL  M    LII. 
A  Pfatm  of  David,  v)he»  Doeg  the  Edomite  came 
and  told  Saul,   and  faid  unto  hhnt  *  David  is 
*  cotnff  to  the  Houfe  of  Ahimelech.* 

1  \7[7HY    glorteft  thou  in   injury, 

VV       O  mighty   man    of  powY? 
The  goodnefs  of  almighty   God 
for   ever   does    endure. 

2  Thy   tongue   vents   mifchief  which   thy   heart 

devifes    wickedly  ; 
And  like   a   fharp'ned   razor  works 
and  wounds  deceitfully. 

3  Thou  loveft  Evil'  more  than  good ; 

more  to  fpeak  wrong  than  right: 

4  And  in  devouring  words   doft  thou, 

deceitful  tongue,  delight.  || 

5  God  will   for  ever   thee  deftroy, 

will  pull  and  pluck  thee  out 
From  thine  own  houfe ;  and  from  the  land 
of  life,  he  will  thee  root.     (Selah.) 

6  The  righteous  this  fhall  alfo  fee, 

with  trembling  in  that  day ; 
Aiid  yet  with  holy  triumph  then, 
pointing  at  thee,  (hall  fay ; 

7  *  Lo  !  this  the  man  that  made  not  GOD 

'  his  flrength;  but  trufted  in 
•  His  fbore  of  riches,  and  himfelf, 

'  ev'n  ftrength'ned  in  his  fin.'  8  But 

]  Mr.  Baxter  goes  no  further  in  (his  PJahn>  on  Account  of  the 
Curfes,    But  we  turn  them  into  the  Form  of  Propbefies^ 


PSALM    LIII.  89 

8  But  in  the  houfe   of  GOD  am  I, 

as  a  green  olive   tree  ; 
And  in  the  grace   of  GOD  my  trail 
for  evermore  mail  be. 

9  Becaufe    thou  this   haft  juftly  done, 

1 11   praife  thee   evermore  ; 
And  on  thy  name  will   wait ;  for  this 
is  good    thy  faints   before. 

PSALM    LIII.  .  A  Pfalm  o/David.' 

1  TT'OOLS  in  their  heart  fay,  there's  no  GOD; 
Jj/      and  fo   corrupt    they  grow, 
Abominable   fins    commit, 

and  nothing  good  they  do. 

2  GOD  from  the  heav'ns  hath  looked  dowa 

the  fons  of  men  to  fee, 
If  any  that   does  underftand, 

that  feeks  to   GOD  there   be. 

3  They  altogether  filthy  are, 

they  all  are   backward   gone  ; 
There  is  not  any  that  does   good, 
no    not  fo    much  as    one. 

4  The   workers    of  iniquity, 

do   they   not  know  at  all  ? 
That  they   my   people   eat  as   bread, 
on   GOD   they  never  call. 

5  There  they  (hall  fear  where  no  fear  is : 

for  GOD  will  fcatter  them 
Who  thee  befet :    them   He  difdains, 
and  thou  fhalt  put   to  fhame. 

6  O  when  will  He    falvation  give 

to  his   poor  Ifrael, 
Fiom  out  of  his  own  Zion,  where 
He   gracioufly  does   dwell  ? 

When  GOD  his  people  mall  return, 

who   have   been  captive  led  ; 
Then  Jacob  will  be  mov'd  with  joy, 

and  Ifr'el  greatly  glad. 

PSALM 


9o         PSALM    LIV.    LV. 

PSALM    LIV. 

A Pfalm  ofD avid,  wheut&e-Ziphitns  came,  and /aid 
to  Saul,  «  Dbtb  not  David  />/V<?  bimfelf  with  us? 

i    /^V  Save  me  in  thy  name,  O  GOD, 
V_y     and   judge   me   by  thy  pow'r  : 

2  O  GOD,  ndw  to  my  pray'r  give  ear, 

and   hear   in    this   fad  hour. 

3  For  Grangers   whom  I  never  wrong'd, 

yet    up   againft  me  rife  : 
My  foul,  opprefTors  feek,   who  GOD 
fet   not    before   their    eyes.     (Selak.) 

4  Lo  GOD  my  help  ;  the  Lord  With  rho<e 

who   my  poor  foul    fuftain  . 

5  My  foes  he'll   juftly  recompen:c. 

and  in   his  truth  reftrain. 

6  Then  I  to  Thee  mall  facrrfice, 

with    grateful    willingnefs  : 
Yea  LORD,   becaufe  'tis    gcod,   I   will 
with   praife  thy  name    confefs. 

7  For  thou  haft  me  delivered 

from  all    adverfities  ; 
And  made   mine  eye  fee  my  defire 
upon   mine    enemies. 

P  S  A  L  M  LV.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 

i  f^\  GOD,   thine  ear  give   to  my  pray'r  j 
V^/     and  hide  not  Thou  thy  face 
From  me  now  fupplicating  Thee, 
and   fuing  for  thy  grace. 

2  O   be  attentive  now  to  me, 

and  hear  my  doleful   voice  : 
I  in   my   meditation  mourn, 
and  make  a  troubled  noife  ; 

3  Thro*  my  foes  voice,  and  face  *  of  thofc 

who   wickedly    opprefs  ; 
Who  charge  iniquities  *  on  me, 
and  hate  with  fpitefulnefs. 

4  Mr 


PSALM    LV.  $>i 

4  My  heart  in  me  is  rack'd  with  pain  ; 

death's  terrors  me  furprize  ; 

5  Great  fear  and  trembling  on  me  come, 

and  horrors  on  me  ieize. 

6  O  that  I  like  a  dove  had  wings, 

then  I   away   would   flee  ; 
That  I  might  find  a  fecret  place, 
where   I    at  reft   could   be. 

7  Lo,  1  would  wander  then  afar, 

and  in  fome  defart  flay  ;    ( Selah.) 

8  From  ftorms  and  tempefts  here  would  I 

make   hafte   to  get   away. 

[  2  Part.  J 

9  Confound  their  povv'r,  G  Lord,  and  let, 

their  tongues  [divided  be  : 
For  rapine,  violence  and   ftrife, 

I  in    the    city   fee. 
io  Upon  her  waUs  both  day  and  night 

they  go  their  conflant  rounds  ; 
And  in  the  midft  all  mifchief  reigns, 

and  grievoufnefs    abounds. 

11  Yea  in  the  midfl,  all  wickednef* 

at   ev'ry  corner  meets  ; 
And  fraud   and  circumventing  guile 
are  ever  in  her  ftreets. 

12  'Twas  no  known  foe  that  flander'd   me, 

for  that  I  could  abide  ; 
Nor  one  who  op'nly  hated  me, 
for   I  from  him  could  hide. 

33  But  thou  the  man,  mine  equal,  wh<* 
haft  done  me  this  defpight  ; 
My  guide  and  my  familiar  friend* 
in  whom  I  took  delight. 
14  We  oft  together  counfel   took 
in    fweet   fociety  ; 
And  walk'd  on  to  the  houfe  of  GOD, 
in  pleaftnt   company. 

15  Bat 


5>2  PSALM    LV. 

15  But  death  fliall  feize  them  ;  and  they  mall 

go  down  alive  to  hell  : 
For  wickednefTes  #  in  their  hearts  * 
and  in  their  houfes  *  dwell. 

[3   Part.  ] 

16  On  GOD  I'll  call  ;  and  then  the  LORD 

to  fave    me  will  appear  : 

17  At  ev'ning,  morning,  noon  I'll  cry; 

and  He   my   voice   will    hear. 

18  For  from  the  war  againft  me   rais'd 

He   did    my  foul  fet    free  ; 
He  brought  me  to  a  ftate  of  peace  ; 
and  many  join  with  me. 

19  God  will  me  hear,  and  humble  them  : 

He  rule  did  ever  bear  :  ( Selah.) 
Becaufe  they  with  no   changes  meet, 
ev'n  GOD  they  do  not  fear. 

20  On  him,  who  was  at  peace  with  them, 

they  ftretched  forth  their  hand  ; 
Their  facred    covenant   with  him 
by  breaking  they  prophan'd. 

21  Smoother  than  butter  were  their  words, 

while  in  their  heart  was  war  ? 
Their  fpeeches  fofter  were   than   oil, 
but  now  drawn  fvvords  they  are. 

22  O  caft  thy   burthen  on  the  LORD  j 

and   He  will  thee  fuftain  : 
He  will  not  let   the  juft   be   mov'd, 
but  ever  them   maintain. 

23  But  Thou,  O  GOD,  wilt  fend  to  hell 

the   men   of  blood   and    guile  ; 
Who  mail  not  live   out  half  their   days  : 
but  trull  in  thee  I  will. 

P^SJLM 


PSALM    LVL  93 

P  S  A  L  M    LVI. 

Michtam  o/David,  when  the  Philiftines  took  him  in 

Gath. 

i   S~\  GOD,  have  mercy  upon  me  ; 

V>/     for  men  would  me  devour  ; 

They  fighting  with  me  conftantly, 

opprefs  me  with  their  powV. 

2  Mine  enemies   continually, 

to  fwallow   me,    devife  ; 
And  they  are   many,   O   moft   high, 
who    up   againft   me   rife. 

3  But   whenfoever   I*m   afraid, 

or    terror    feizes    me  ; 
Then  I  repair  to  Thee  my    ftrength, 
and  reft  my  felf  on   Thee. 

4  In  GOD   his  faithful  word  I'll   praife  : 

O   GOD,  I'll   truft  in  Thee  ; 
And  then    I  will    not   be    afraid 
what  flefh  *  can  do   to  me. 

5  They  daily  wreft  my  words   to  fpeak. 

a   fenfe   I  never   meant  ; 
And  to  bring   injuries   on   me, 
their  thoughts  are   wholly   bent. 

6  In  clofe  alTemblies  they  combine, 

and  wicked    projects    lay  : 
They  watch  my  fteps,  and  lie  in   wait, 
to  make  my  foul  their    prey. 

7  Shall  they  by  all  their  wickednefs 

efcape   thy   dreadful    frown  ? 
O  GOD,   Thou    wilt  in    anger   cafl 
thofe  wicked   people  down. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

8  Of  all  my  wand'rings  to  and  fro, 

Thou    haft   the    reck'ning    took  ; 
Into   thy   bottle  put  my   tears  : 
are  they  not  in  thy  book  ? 

9  Then 


94  PSALM    LV1L 

9  Then  turned  back  (hall  be  my  foes  ; 

when    I    cry   out   to   Thee  : 
For  this   I    know    afTuredly, 

that   GOD  will    be    for    me. 
io  In  GOD  I'll  praife  his  faithful   word, 

which   He  fulfils    always  ; 
His  word  which   He   to   me  performs, 

I   in    the    LORD    will    praife. 
ii  In   GOD  I  truft,   and   will    not   fear 

what   flefli    can    do    to  me. 

12  Thy  vows  upon  me  are,   O   GOD  : 

I'll    render   praife   to  Thee. 

13  For  Thou  haft   fav'd  my  foul   from  death, 

when  k  was    near    to   me  : 
And  wilt  Thou  not  uphold  my  feet, 

and  keep  from   falling  *  free  ? 
.  That  I  before  the  face  *  of  GOD 

may  walk  *  in  uprightnefs   ! 
And  in  the    light  of  thofe   who    live 

continually   Thee   blefs. 

PSALM    LVII. 
Mi&amcfDaxid>'wbe77 hefled heforeSaul  in  theCavf. 

1  /^V    GOD,   to   me  be    merciful, 
\_J     be    merciful   to   me  ; 
Becaufe    my  foul    for  fhelter   fafe 

betakes    it    felf  to    Thee. 
Yea    in   the  fhadow  of  thy   wings 

my    refuge  I  have    plac'd, 
Until   thefe    great    calamities 

be   wholly  overpaft. 

2  I'll   cry  aloud  to  GOD   moft   high, 

till  heard  my  cry  (hall  be  ; 
Ev'n  to   the  God   who   ftill    performs 
all  things    moft  fit    for  me. 

3  From  heav'n  will  He  fend  down,  and  me 

from  their  reproach  defend, 
Who  wou'd  devour  me :  f  GOD  will  forth  (\SeIab.) 
His  truth  and  mercy  fend. 

4  My 


PSALM    LVIII.  95 

4  My  foul   amidft   fierce    lions   is, 
I   lire-brands    lie   among  ; 
Men's  fons  whofe  teeth  are  darts  and  fpears, 
and  like  (harp   fwords  their  tongue. 
c  Above   the  lofty   heav'ns   do  Thou 
exalt  thy  felf,   O   COD  : 
O  let  thy  glory  be   advanc'd 
o'er   all   the  earth   abroad. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

6  They  for  my  fteps   prepar'd   a  net, 

my   foul    was    bowed   down  :  * 
They  dig'd  a  pit  for  me  ;   but  they 

in  midlt  thereof  are   thrown.     ( Sslah.) 

7  My  heart  is  fix'd,   my   heart   is   fix'd  5 

O  GOD,  I'll  fing  and  praife  : 

8  Awake  my  glory,   pfalt'ry,    harp, 

my   {d£  lii    early   raife. 

9  Thy  praife,    O.   Lord,   will   I   proclaim 

amocg   the  people  round  : 
Among   the   nations   I   with  fongs 
thy   praifes    will  refound. 

10  For  great  thy  riling  mercy  fpreads, 

ev'n  to  the  heav'ns   on  high  ; 
And  equally  thy  truth  extends 
up  to  the  cloudy  fky. 

11  Above  the  lofty  heav'ns    do  thou 

exalt  thyfelf,    O   GOD  ! 
And  let  thy  glory  be  advanc'd 
o'er  all  the   earth  abroad. 

PSALM   LVIII.     Mitfam  of  David, 

1  f~\  Ye  aiTembly,   do  ye  now, 

\J     fpeak  righteoufnefs  indeed  > 
In  judgment  do  ye  fons   of  men 
with  uprightnefs  proceed  ? 

2  Or  do  ye  mifchief  in  your  hearts 

devife  ;    and  with  your  hand 
Then  weigh,   *  and  deal  out  violence 

throughout  the  injur'd  had  !  ^e 


96  PSALM    LVIII. 

3  The  wicked  from  the  womb   eflrang'd 

from   ev'ry   holy   way ; 
And  from  the  birth   their  practice  is 
to   lie  and    go    aftray. 

4  Ev'n  like   a  ferpent's   poifon  is 

the  poifon  that  they   bear  ; 
And   they   are  like  the  adder  deaf 
that   ftops  up   clofe  her   ear. 

5  Who   will  not   hear  the   charmer's   voice, 

but   deaf  will   Hill   remain  ; 
And   tho*   he  charms  with  utmoft  /kill, 
can  no  attention   gain. 

6  Break  Thou   their   teeth  within  their  mouths, 

O    GOD   of  mighty  pow'r  ; 
The   great  teeth,  LORD,  of  lions  young, 
prepared  to   devour. 

7  They  mail  as  waters  melt  away» 

which   run    continually  ; 
And  all  their  arrows   ready  bent 
mall    cut  in  pieces   be. 
S  As   melting   fnails  fhall    they   difTolve, 
and  all  fhall   pafs   away  j 
And  even  like  untimely  births, 
that   never  fee  the  day. 

9  E're  pots  perceive  *  the  blaze  of  thorns,  \ 
He'll  feize  on  them  alive  ; 
And   bear  them  in  his   wrath  away, 
as  whirlwinds  ftubble  drive, 
to  The  righteous  fhall   rejoice  when  they 
this  righteous  vengeance  fee  ; 
And  in  the  blood  of  impious  men 
their  feet  fhall  warned  be. 

j  i   So  men  fhali  fay  ;    fure  for  the  jufl 
there  is  a  recompence  ; 
Sure  there's  a  GOD,  a  Judge  on  earth, 
who  juftice  will  difpenfe, 

PSALM 
<f  i.  e.  So  fuddojly,  as  before  the  kindling  Blaze  of  Thorns 
can  reach  the  Pots  it  flaihes  under. 


PSALM    LIX.  97 

PSALM    LIX. 

Michtam   of  David  ;   when    Saul  fent,   and  the-j 
watched  the   Houfe  to   kill  bim% 


o 


Thou    my    God,   deliver   ma 


And  raife  me  up   above    all  thofe 

who    up    againft    me    rife. 
Z  Do   thou   deliver   me   from   them 

who   work    iniquity  ; 
And  do  thou  fave  me  from   the   mea 

of  blood  and   cruelty, 

3  For  lo,  they   for   my  foul  lay   wait  : 

the    mighty   men  combine 
Againft   me,  LORD,   not    for  my  fin, 
nor    any    fault   of  mine. 

4  They   run  and    ready    make    themfelves, 

for    no    offence    in    me  : 
But  O  do   thou   behold,   and   rife3 
and  meet   me  fpeedjly, 

5  Awake   therefore,    LORD  GOD    of  hogs. 

Thou    God   of  Ifrael, 
To  judge  the    nations  :  favour    none 
who    impioufly    rebel.      (Selah.) 

6  At  ev'ry  ev'ning  they   return, 

and   like    the   rav'nous    hound, 
They  make   a    noife  on    ev'ry  fide, 
and  range   the   city  round, 

7  Behold  they  belch  out  of  their  mouths  •? 

within    their  lips    are   fwords  : 
*  For   who   is    he   that  hears   us  fpeak  V 

are   their   difdalnful    words, 
$  Yet  Thou,  O   LORD,  wilt,  laugh  at  them, 

the  heathen   all    deride. 
9  But  GOD   my   ftrength  is,  and  my  tow'r,* 

and    in  Thee   I  confide. 


$S  PSALM    LIX. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

10  The   God   of  all  ray   mercies   *  will 
prevent   and  fuccour  me  ; 
And  GOD  will  give   me  on   my  foes 
my   jufi   defire  to   fee. 
|t  Them  flay  not,  left  thy  people   mould 
forget  thy  favour  foon  : 
But    by   thy  pow*r,'0    Lord,    our  mield, 
difperfe  and  bring  them    down. 

H  2  Becaufe  their  mouths  and  lips  abound 
with   fins  ;   thcu   wilt   iurprize, 
And  take   them   in  their  pride,    who  fpeak 
fuch   curfes   and  fuch  lies. 
33  Thou    wilt   confume  them  in   thy  wiath, 
and  make  them  underitand, 
That  GOD   rules   over  all   the  earth, 
who  rules  in  Jacobus  land.     ( Selah.) 

£4  When   ev'ning   comes   mail  they  return  ; 
and   like   a   rav'nous    hound, 
A   difcontented   noife   mail  make, 
and   range  the  city  round. 
% s;  With  hunger  they   mall    roam    about, 
in   feeking  food   to  eat  ; 
And   murmur  as    their   hunger   grows, 

and  howl  for  want  of  meat.  . 

16  But  ev'ry   morn   I'll   ling   thy   pow'r 
thy  mercy  loud   confefs  ; 
Who  art  my  refuge,  and  my  tow'r,  J 
in  days    of  my   diflrefs. 
f7  Therefore  to  Thee,  O  Thou  my   ftrength, 
I  praife  will  ever   fing  ; 
For  GOD    is   my  high  tow'r,  %   the  God, 
whence  ail   my  mercies  fpring. 

PSALM 

I  JftA—Mv  Elevation, 


P  S  A  L  M     LX.  99 

PSALM    LX. 

Michtam  of  David,  to  teach  ;  when  he  ft  rove  with 
Aram  Naharaim,  and  with  Aram  Zobath  ;  when 
Joab  returned,  and  f mote  of Edom  in  the  Valky 
cf  Salty  Twelve  Thoufand.     [2  Sam.  viii.j 

1  >^v    GOD,   Thou  haft  deferted   us, 
V_y     and   fcatter'd    in  difdain  ! 
Thou  haft  been  awfully  difpleas'd  ! 

O   turn  to   us   again. 

2  The  land  to   tremble  thou   haft   caus'd  j 

didft  it   afunder  break  ! 
O  now  the   breaches   of  it   heal  ; 
for  it  doth  greatly  (hake  ! 

3  Thou   haft  thy   people  made   to  fee 

things    that  are  haid  to   bear  1 
And  thou  haft  caufed   us   to    drink 
the  wine  of  trembling  fear  J 

4  But  thou  a  banner   haft   beftow'd 

on    thofe   who   Thee   revere, 
That   it   on   high   before  the    truth  | 
difplayed   may   appear.     (Selah.) 

5  That  thy  beloved  people   may 

a   full  deHVrance  have  ; 
O  hear   the   fervent   pray'rs  I   make, 
and  let  thy   right   hand  fave  ! 

6  GOD  in  his   holinefs  *  hath   fpoke  ; 

my  joy  therein    is    high  ; 
Shechem   divide,   and   Succoth's   vale, 
meafure  for  mine  will  I ; 

*l  Gilead  is   mine,  Manafleh  mine, 
who  both   efpoufe    my   caufe  : 
Ephraim    is    of  my    ftrength   the  head, 
and  judah  gives  my  laws. 

F  2  8  Moab 

11  i.  e«  fc?fore  the  army  march  ijjg  in  the  Caufe  of  the  true  Religion. 


ioo  PSALM    LXI. 

8  Moab  my  wafhpot  f  I  will  make, 

o'er   Edom    caft    my    flioe  ;  % 
And  ye   Philiftia's   haughty  tribes, 
I'll  triumph  over  you.  jj 

9  Who   will   me    to   the  city   lead 

fo   ftrongly   fortify'd  ? 
And    who   is  he  that   to    the  land 
of  Edom  will    me  guide  ? 

10  Didft  thou  not  caft   us   off,   O  GOD  ? 

yet  ftill  we  look  to  thee  : 
Wilt  thou    not  with   our   armies  go  ? 
and  God  our  leader  be  ? 

11  O  then  to    us   in   our   diftrefs 

thy  fpeedy   fuccour    fend  ! 
For  vain   it  is    on    human    aid 
for  fafety  to    depend. 

12  But  by  the  helping  pow'r  of  GOD 

we    mall    do    valiantly  ; 
And  He'll  our  foes    tread   down,  and    make 
beneath   our   feet  to^lie. 

PSALM  LXI.    A  Pfalm  e/David. 

i    dT^lYE   ear,  O  GOD,  to  my  loud  cry, 
V_JT     and    to   my    pray'r   attend  ; 
As   from   the    corners  of  the  earth, 
my  cries    to    Thee    afcend. 

2  And   now    my   heart    is    overwhelm'd, 

ready    to    fail  and  die, 
O  lead   me    up  into  the   rock, 
that  higher   is    than    I. 

3  For  in   my  danger  Thou    haft  been, 

a    fhtlter   fafe    to   me  ; 
A  tow'r  of  ftrength   and  fure   defence 
againft  my  enemy. 

4  Within 

\  i.  e.  will  life  as  luch  a  Veffel  in  mean  Services. 

J  To  caft  a  Shoe  over  a  Pet  Ton,  feems  to  have  been,  among  the 

ancient  Hebrews,  a  S:gn  o<"  Snbje&ion  and  Servitude, 
]|  So.  it  is  cxplaiii'd  in  Pfalm  cyiii.  9. 


PSALM    LXII.  tot 

4  Within    thy  tabernacle  I, 

for   ever  will   abide  ; 
And  in  the    covert   of  thy   wings 

will   truil  and  fafely    hide.     ( Selah.) 

5  For  Thou,  O  GOD,  haft  heard  my  vows, 

as  They  before  Thee   came  ; 
And   gav'll  me   an    inheritance, 
with  thofe  who  fear  thy  name. 

6  O   wilt   Thou    give    this   to    the  King, 

yet   many   days  to  fee  ; 

To   many   generations    let 

his   years  prolonged  be* 

7  Let  him  before  the   face  of  GOD, 

for  evermore  remain  ; 
.And   let   benignity    and   truth, 
fecure    his    happy   reign. 

8  So  will   I  ever  to   thy  name 

fing    grateful  fongs   of  praife  ; 
And   chearfully   perform   my    vows 
tliTo'  all   my  future  days. 

PSALM    LXIL     A  P faint  cfD&vld. 
i  nnRULY   my  waiting  foul  on  GOD,     '** 
JL        in   filent  hope    relies  : 
For   my   falvation  wholly  does 
from  Him   alone   arife. 
■2  He   only  my    falvation  is, 

my   rock   of  ftrength    is    He ; 

My  only   fure    defence  and  tow'r, 

mov'd   much   I  ihall   not  be. 

3  How  long  againft  a  man  will  ye 

plot  mifchief  ?  ye  Ihall  fall  ; 
For  as  a  tott'ring   fence   ye    are, 
and  like  a  bowing  wall. 

4  To   call:  him  from  his  dignity, 

confpirir.g  they  devife  ; 
Blefs  with  their  mouth,  but  curfe   in   heart, 
and  take  delight  in   lies.  v 

F  3  SMj 


ioz  PSALM   LX1II. 

I 

5  My  foul  wait  thou  on    GOD  alone  ; 

my  only    hope   is   He  ; 

6  My  rock,   my   faviour,   my   high    tow'r, 

I  fnall   not  moved  be. 

7  In    GOD   alone    my  glory   is, 

and    my   falvation    fure  : 
In   GOD   the  rock  of  all  my  flrength 
my    refuge    moil   fecure. 

8  Ye  people,  place  your   confidence 

on    Him    continually  r 
Pour  out  your  hearts  before  his  face  :* 
GOD   is   our  refuge   high.    • 

9  Sure  mean  men's  fons   are  vanity, 

and  high   men's   fons   a  lie  ; 
When   all  are    in  a  balance   laid, 
they    rife  *    like   vanity. 

10  Then  truft  not  in   oppreflive  ways, 
by  rapine  grow  not  vain  ; 
Nor   let  your  hearts,  if  wealth   increafe, 
be  fet  on  earthly  gain. 
il   Once  fpoken   hath   the    mighty   GOD, 
yea,   twice   I   heard   Him   loud  j 
That  fov'reign  and   almighty  pow'r 
belongs    alone  to   GOD. 

12  Yea  boundlefs  mercy  appertains 
to   Thee,   O  Lord,  alone  ; 
And  Thou   according   to  his   work 
rewardeft   ev'ry   one. 
PSALM    LXIII.     A  Pfalm  */ David, 
when  he  was  in  the  Wilder -fiefs  of  Judah. 
i  f^K   GOD,   Thou  art  my  God,    I    will 
\J     betimes   for  Thee  enquire. 
My   foul  does  thirft  and   long   for  Thee  ; 
my  flefh  for  Thee  defire. 
2  As  in  a  dry  and  weary   *   land, 
wherein   no  waters   are  ; 
To  fee,  as  in   thy  houfe  I've  feen 
Tl>/  pow'r  and  glory  there. 

3  Becaufe 


PSALM    LXIII.  103 

3  Becaufe  thy  loving-kindnefs    more 

in   goodnefs    doth  excel, 
Than   life  it  {elf,   therefore  my   lips 
thy    praifes    forth   (hall   tell. 

4  Thus  I'll  Thee  blefs  continually, 

while   yet  alive  I  am  ; 
And  I  thefe  hands   of  mine  on  high- 
will   lift   up   in.  thy  name. 

5  With  marrow  and   with  fatnefs   fill'd 

my    longing  foul   (hall  be  ; 
And  then   my    mouth   with   joyful  lips 
will   render  praife  to  Thee. 

6  When  Thee  I  to  remembrance  call, 

as   on  my  bed   I   lie, 
In    watches    of  the  filent    night  ; 
then   on   Thee    mufe   do   I. 

7  Calling  to  mind,   how  ihon   hail  been 

a  conftant  help   to  me  ; 
I'll   in    the  madow  of  thy   wings 
rejoice   exceedingly. 

8  My  longing  foul    yet  follows  hard,  f 

and  clofely  cleaves  J  to  Thee  ; 
And   Thou  with    thy  right   hand    of  pow'-' 
in  love   upholdefl   me. 

.9  But   who  my  foul    feek   to   deflroy, 

go  down  the  pit  mall  they  : 
30  Some  fiain   by  {words,  their   carcafTes 

(hall   be    the    foxes    prey. 
11  Yet  fhall   the  King  in   GOD   rejoice  r 

and    all   that   by   Him  [    fv/ear  § 
In   Him  ||  fhall   glory:    but  their    mouths ; 

be  ftop'd  that  liars  are. 

F4  PSALM 

f  So  Septuaglnt,   Syriack,   Arabick. 

%  So  Cbaldtey    ancient  Latin    and   Mcntar.us  ;    The  Hebrew 
comprieing  both  Ideas. 

|1  i.  e.  God.       §  j.  e.  who  reverently  fwear  by  Him,  as  the 
only  true  and  adorable  God. 


ro4  PSALM    LXIV. 

PSALM    LXIV. 
A  Pfalm   or   Song  of  David. 

v  l   r^   Mighty  GOD,   hear   Thou   the   vrfce, 
\^7      I    utter  in    my    pray*r  ; 
Preferve   my  life  from   cruel  foes, 
and  free  me  from  their  fear. 

2  From  fecret  plots   of  wicked  men 

O   hide    me    carefully ; 
From  infurreclions   of  all   thofe 
who    work    iniquity. 

3  Who   their   ill  tongues  in  malice  whet 

and  fharpen  them  like   fwords, 
And   fet    as   arrows    in   their    bows 
to   moot  out    bitter  words. 

4  That   they   in    fecrecy   may   moot 

at    thofe    who    upright   are  ; 
Yea   fuddenly    again  ft    them    moot 
and  ftrike   them  without  fear. 

5  In    ill    deHgns    excite   themfelves, 

confulting    how    to    lay 
Their   fnares   in   utmofc   fecrecy  ; 

"  and  who    (hall    fee,"    they  fay. 
$  Injurious  evils   they  fearch  out,    . 

and   fearch    with   utmoft    art  : 
Mcfc  inward  is    their    plotting    thought, 

and  deep   their   fubtil   heart. 

7  But   GOD    will   arrows   fhoot  at    them, 

and    wound  them   fuddenly. 

8  Yea   their   own    tongue    fhall    them    confound, 

and   all   who   fee   them,    fly. 

cj  Yea    all   around    mall   fear,    and   fhall 

the  work    of  GOD  declare  ; 

For    wifely  they   fhall    underftand, 

that   thefe  his    doings    are. 

so  The  juft   mall  in    the    LORD   rejoice, 
and  fafe  on   Him   rely  ; 
Yea  all  of  upright  heart  mall  fure 
exult  in   Him  on   high.  PSALM 


PSALM    LXV.  105 

P  S  A  L  M    LXV. 

A  Pfahn  or  Song  of  David. 

i    Q1LENCE  !  For  Thee,  the  praife  O  GOD, 
>3      doth    wait   in    Zion-hill  ; 

And    all   the  vows  we  made  to  Thee 
we    chearf ully    fulfil. 

2  O   Thou  who  heareft  humble   pray'rs, 

which    to   Thee    off' red    are, 
To   Thee    all  Tons   of  men  fnall  come, 
and   to   Thee    we   repair. 

3  Works   of  iniquity  prevail 

againfl  us   at  this    day  ; 
Yet   as   for   our   tranfgreffions,  Thou 
wilt    cleanfe  them    clear    away. 

4  O  blerTed   is    the   man   of  whom 

Thou  thy  free  choice  doft  make  ; 
And    that    he  in    thy   courts   may   dwell 
him    near   to    Thee    dof:   take. 

For  there    we  mall    be  fatisfy'd, 

with    thine   abundant    grace, 
With  all   the  good   things   of  thy  houfe, 

thy   chofen  holy   place. 

5  By  dreadful  things  in  righteoufnefs 

by   Thee    wrought  wondroufly, 
O   God  of  our   falvation,  Thou 
wilt  anfwer   to   our   cry  : 

Who  of  the  ends  of  all   the    earth 

art  the  firm   hope   and   ftay  • 
And  of  all  thofe   who    far    abroad, 

are  tofs'd  upon    the  fea. 

6  Girded  with   ftrength,  He  fixes    faft 

the    mountains  and  high   hills  ; 

7  And  all  the  noife    of  feas    and  waves, 

and   rage   of  nations  J    {tills. 

F  5  E  2  Part.  ] 

%  Hib.—Lamm  ;  i.  e.  Nations :  and  Co  the  Se}tuagintfCba&'j 
Arabirty  ancient  Latin,   and  Montanus, 


106  PSALM    LXVL 

[  2  Part.] 

8  All  in  the   utmoit  parts   who   dwell 

are   at   thy  figns  afraid  ; 
Yet  Thou  the   goings    forth   of  morn 
and   ev'ning   maker!   glad. 

9  Thou   vifiteft  the  thirfly  earth, 

and  roak'ft  it   rich  with  rain  : 
GOD's    river   full   of  water   is  ; 
and   Thou  preparer!:  grain. 

10  Her  ridges    richly  wat'reft  Thou, 

her  furrows   Thou    fet'ft   faft  ;  - 
With  mow'rs   Thou  mak'ft  her  foft  to  be3 
her   Springing    bleft   Thou    haft. 

11  Thou  with  thy  goodnefs  doll  the  year 

adorn  as  with  a  crown ; 
And  thy  full  paths  along  the  clouds, 
drop  their  rich  fatnefs  down. 

12  On  paftures   of  the  wildernefs, 

refreshing   they  diitill : 
And   girt   with  joy  en  ev'ry  fide, 
is   ev'ry  little  hill. 

13  With  flocks  the  paftures   cloathed  are, 

with  corn   the  vallies  fpring ; 
All  over  cover'd,  all   adorn'd, 
they   fhout  for  joy  and  fing. 

PSALM    LXVI.     A  Song  or  Pfalm, 

1  /^\  All  ye  lands,  with   fhouts    of  joy, 
'   v_y     t^  GOD    your   voices    raife  : 

2  Sing  forth  the  honour .  of  his   name, 

and   glorious   make  his   praife. 

3  Say  ye    to  GOD  ;  *  In  thy  great  works 

*  how   terrible    art   thou  ; 

«  Thro'   thy  almighty  pow'r  thy  foes 
1  to  The?  are  made   to  bow  : 

4  *  Yea  all  the  nations  of  the  earth 

*  fhall  bow  and  fing  to  Thee ; 

•  To  thine  exalted  Name  fhall  fmg 

;  with  j»y  and'melQdvV  (S/fakJ        £cme 


PSALM    LXVI.  107 

5  Come,  and  the  mighty  works   of  GOD 

with    admiration   fee  ; 
In  doings  to    the  ions   of  men, 
how    terrible    is    He    ? 

6  He  turn'd    the    channels   of  the    fea 

to  dry  and  folid   ways.; 
'Our  fathers  pafs'd  the   flood  en  foot  5 
and  there  we  fang  his  praife. 

7  He  by  his  pow'r    for    ever    rules  ; 

his    eyes   the  nations    fpy   ; 
Let  none  who   are'  rebellious    dare 
to   lift  themfelves  on  high.     (Seh.h.) 

[  2   Part.  J 

8  O  all   ye  people,   blefs  our    God, 

and  found   aloud    his   praife    ; 

9  Who  puts    and   holds  our   fouls    in  life, 

and  feet   from    Aiding  flays. 

10  For  Thou,  O   GOD,  haft   proved  us, 

and  try'd   as  filver   try'd  ; 

1 1  Into    a   net  haft   wound  us    faft, 

our    loins    hall  flraitly  ty'd. 

12  Men  o'er  our   heads  Thou   mad'ft  to  rid?) 

thro'  fire  and  floods  we   pafl ; 
Yet  Thou   into   a  happy   place, 
of  freedom  brought    us   haft. 

13  With  ofPrings  I'll    go  to    thy  houfe,- 

my  vows  I'll  pay   to   Thee  ; 

14  Which  my   lips   utter'd  and  mouth   fnake3 

when    trouble  was   on   me. 

15  Burnt    off 'rings   I    will   on^r  Thee, 

that  full    of  fatnefs    are  ; 
The  beft  of  all  my  flocks   and   herds, 
with    incenfe    I'll   prepare.      ( Sclah.) 

16  O   come   and  hearken   now   to  me 

all  ye  who  GOD  revere  ; 
And  what  He  for   my   foul  bath  done, 
I'll  gratefully  declare. 

J  7  My 


io8  PSALM     LXVII. 

17  My   mouth    to  Him  in   my  diftrefs 
fent   forth   my    earnefl   cry  : 
He   heard   me,   and   my  joyful    tongue 
extolled    Him    on    high. 

38  If  in  my  heart   I    fin    allow'd, 

the    Lord  would   not   give   ear  : 

39  But  furely  GOD    gave  ear  to  me, 

and  kindly  heard    my  pray'r. 

20  O  let  this  kind  and   mighty   GOD, 
for   ever   bleifed  be  ; 
Who   turned   not   my    pray'r   from   Him, 
nor   mercy  held   from   me. 

PSALM    LXVn.     A  Pfalm  or  Song. 

1  T      ET    GOD    be    merciful    to   us, 
A— J      and    with   his   favour   blefs, 
And  let   Him    on    us    caufe   to  mine 

the  brightnefs   of  his   face. 

2  That  fe    thy  way   reveal'd  to   us 

all    the   glad   earth    may   know  ; 
And  that   thy  great  falvarion  Thon 
may'ft  to   all    nations    mow. 

3  O  GOD,  let   all    the   people    round, 

give   praifes   to  thy   name  ; 
Let   all  the    people  thro'    the   world 
thy    higheft    praife  proclaim. 

4  O  let  the   nations   fmg    For  joy, 

and    be    exceeding    glad  ; 
Thou  wilt  the   people  rightly  judge, 
and   ail   the   nations   lead.  *     ( Selah.) 

5  O   GOD,  let    all  rfhe    people   round 

give  praifes   to  thy  name  ; 
Let   all  the  people  through  the  world 
thy    higheft    praife    proclaim. 

6  And  then   the   fruitful   earth    around, 

fhall   yield  her    great  increafe  ; 
And  GOD,  the   God  who   is    our   own, 
fhall  us  with  plenty  blefs. 

7  Out 


PSALM    LXVII.  LXVI1L      109 

7  Our   GOD  will  greatly  blefs   us   all, 
who  his   own    people   are  ; 
And  all  the   regions   of  the  earth, 
mall   Him    fupremely    fear. 

[   Hallelujah  Metre.   ] 

1  1 '    ET   GOD   fhow'r   down   his  grace, 
J—'     enrich   with    gifts   divine  ; 

Let    his   illuftrious    face 
on  us   his   people   mine  : 

2  That    all    below 

the   arched   fky, 
may  Thee   and   thy 
Salvation  know. 

3  Let   all  to  GOD    give  praife, 

with    one    confent    agree  : 

4  Their  voice    the    nations    raife, 

and   gladly    fing   to   Thee  5 
Thy    pow'r    obey, 

whofe   juftice    mall 

difpcfe    of   all, 
All  fceptres  fway. 

5  O   GOD,   let  people    praife, 

Thee  praife,    both   great  and    fm.aH  % 

6  Earth    yield  fhall  her  increafe  ; 

GOD,  our   God  blefs    us    all. 
GOD   will  us   blefs  ; 

and    every   where 

all    men   his.  fear 
Thro'   earth  profefs. 

PSALM  LXVIII.  A  Pfalm  or  Seng  of  David. 

1  T     ET  GOD   arife,  and  all  his  foes 
J A     abroad   difperfed   be  : 

Let    all    who  haters   of  Him   are, 
away  before   Him   Hqq. 

2  As  fmoke,  the   wicked    Thou   wilt   drive 

and    quite    difperfe    abroad  : 
As  wax  by  fire,   fo   mall   they  melt 

before  the  face  of  GOD.  3  But 


no  PSALM    LXVIII. 

I 

3  But  let  the  righteous  all  be  glad  ; 

O    let  them   joyful    be 
Before  GOD's  face  ;   yea  let  them  all 
rejoice  exceedingly. 

4  Sing  ye  to  GOD,  O  ling  his  praife  ; 

with  joy  extol   his  name  : 
His  name  is  JAH,    and  high  he  rides 
on   heav'ns   exalted   frame. 

5  For  He  a  tender  father   is 

to  children    fatherlefs  ; 
And  GOD   the    widow's  judge   is  in 
his   place  of  holinefs. 

6  GOD  lets  the  fmgle  *  in  an  houfe  j  * 

frees  captives  from  their  bands  ; 
But  thofe  who  rebels  are  to  Him, 
inhabit  thirfty   lands. 

[   2   Part.   ] 

7  O  GOD,  when  once  Thou  didft  go  forth 

before   thy   people's  face, 
And    thro'   the    hideous   wildernefs 

didfl  as   their  leader  pafs  ;     (Se/ah.) 
3  The  earth  did  at  GOD's  prefence  fhake  : 

the  heav'ns  then  drop'd  and  fell  : 
Sinai  fliook  at  the  fight  of  GOD, 

the  God  of  Ifrael. 

9  O   GOD,   Thou   on  thy  heritage, 
didfl  pour  a  plenteous  rain  ; 
Whereby,   Thou,   when  it  weary  was, 
didfl   it   revive  again. 
10  Thy  congregation   then  did  make 
their    habitation   there  ; 
And  of  thy  goodnefs   for  the   poor, 
O  GOD,   Thou    didft   prepare. 

;i  The  Lord  gave  forth   his   word  on  high, 
abroad   it  quickly  came  ; 
And    great   the   army   was    of  thofe 
who  publifhed  the  fame. 

12  Tie 


PSALM    LXVIII.  in 

12  The  kings  of  mighty  armies   fled, 

in   hafte   they   fled    away  : 
And  fhe  that  fafely   ftay'd   at   home, 
help'd   to  divide   the  prey. 

13  Tho'   flaves   among  the  pots  ye  lay; 

you  foon   we   did    behold, 
Like  a  fair  dove   with   filver  wings 
and   feathers    bright   with   gold. 

14  When  the  Almighty  fcatter'd  kings, 

fo   glorious  then   ye   were  ; 
Like  glittering  fnow   on   Salmon-hill,., 
ye   did    as    bright    appear. 

[  3  P«rt    1 

15  Like  to  the  mount  of  Bafhan  Is 

the  mountain  of  our  GOD  : 
More  choice  than  Bafhan  is  the  mount 
of  his  defign'd  abode. 

16  Why  leap  ye  fo,   ye  lofty  hills  ? 

for  this,    this   is    the   hill, 
Where  GOD   defires   to  dwell,   and  where 
the  LORD  will  ever  dwell. 

17  The  chariot  f  of  the  mighty  GOD 

millions   of  J   angels   are  ; 
And  ftill   among  them  is  the   Lord, 
as  on  mount   Sinai,    there. 

18  Thou  hall  afcended   up  on  high 

as    our    victorious    head  : 
Thou  num'rous   hofts  of   captives    hail 
thy    happy    captives   led. 

Thou  haft  rich  gifts  receiv'd  for  men, 

for  fuch  as   did   rebel  ; 
That  GOD,  whofe  name  is  JAH,*  with  them 

might   condefcend   to   dwell.  j| 

19  O 

•\  Heb.  in  the  Angular  Number. 

j  Heb. — Twenty  ThoufandThoufand  doubled  j  which  Is  at  leaf! 
Forty  Millions  ;  or  rather  a  great  Number,  for  a  Number 
vaftly  greater  and  exceeding  our  Imagination. 

8  Exprcfly  applied  to  Christ's  /Ijcinfm,  in  B$bx  iv,  7—13. 


H2  PSALM    LXVIII. 

19  O   blefled  be  this    gracious   Lord, 

who   daily   doth    us    load 
With    many    benefits,    and   is 

of  our   falvation    God.     (Selah.) 

20  He   of  falvation    is    the    God, 

who  is    our  God    moft    ftrong  ; 
And    to   the    Lord  JEHOVAH   do 
iffues   from   death    belong. 

21  But   GOD   will   deeply  wound   their    heads, 

who    are    his    ftubborn    foes  ; 
The   hairy  crown   of  him    who    ftill 
on   in   his    trefpafs    goes. 

[  4  Part.  ] 

22  The   Lord  faid,  I'll  bring  back  again, 

again  from  Bafhan-land, 
My    people   thro'    the  depth   of  feas, 
by    my   almighty   hand. 

23  That   Thou   may 'ft   vanquifh  thy   proud   foes> 

fo    me rcilefs    and   ftrong  ; 
And   in   the   chafe  may'ft  dip  in   blood 
thy   foot,  and   dogs    their  tongue. 

24  Thy   goings    to    thy   holy   place, 

O    GOD,  they    all    have   feen  :    , 
Thy    goings   O   my    God,    my   king, 
how    glorious    have   they    been  ! 

25  Sweet   fingers   marching  in    the   van, 

muficians    in    the    rear  ; 
And  in    the  midft  a  virgin    train, 
with   timbrels    charm  the    ear. 

26  Blefs   GOD  thro'    all  your   companies, 

and    forth    his    praifes    tell  : 
The   fov'reign    Lord,   O   blefs  all   ye? 
who   fpring   from    Ifrael. 

27  Princes  of    Benjamin's    fmall   tribe, 

and   Judah's  heads   combine  ; 
And    Zebulon's    and  Naphtali's 
he  glad  proceflion   ioio» 

28  Thy 


PSALM    LXVIII.  H3 

28  Thy   God  commanded  all   thy  ftrength, 

and    thus   hath    ftrengthned    thee  : 
Confirm,    O   GOD,  what   Thou  lor    us 
haft   wrought  fo  wondroufly. 

I  5   Part.  ] 

29  Ev'n   for  thy  facred  temple  fake 

built   at   Jerufalem, 
The  kings    around    fhall  come  and  bring 
their   coflly  gifts  with   them. 

30  Rebuke    the    fpearmen's    companies, 

and  all  the  multitude 
Of  people   fierce   as   mighty  bulls, 

and   fatted   calves    as    rude  ; 
Till    all  fubmit   and  tribute  bring 

of  filver    from  afar  ; 
O  fcatter   Thou  the  people    who 

delight    in    fpoil    and  war. 

31  Princes    mall    then    bow    down    to    Thee 

and    come  from    Egypt    lands ; 
And  Ethiopia  fhall    to  GOD, 
ftretch    out   in   hafte   her   hands* 

32  O  fing  aloud  to  GOD  with  joy, 

ye  kingdoms   of  the  earth, 
And  to    the   fov'reign    Lord  O  fing 

with  pfalms   in   facred  mirth.      (Selah.) 

33  To  Him  who   rides   on  heav'ns   of  heav'ns, 

which    he    of  old   did    found  ; 
Lo    how  he   fends    hie   awful    voice, 

a   voice    of  mighty   found. 
34.  Afcribe  ye    boundlefs    pow'r    to   GOD  ^ 

whofe    glorious  dignity 
Is  over  Ifra'l,   and  his   pow'r 

fhines  in  the   lofty   Iky. 

35  O   GOD,  how  terrible  art  Thoti 
out  of  thy  holy  place  ! 
God  mighty  pow'r  his  people  gives : 
to  GOD  be  all  the  praife. 

PSALM 


114  PSALM     LX1X. 

PSALM    LXIX.    j9  Pfalm  cf  David, 
i   O  AVE  me,  0  GOD  :  for  mighty  ftreams 
k3     break   now   into  my  foul  : 

2  In  depths  of  mire    and   floods  I   fink, 

and   torrents  o'er   me  roll. 

3  I   with  my   crying  weary  am  ; 

my  throat   is    thereby  dry   : 
And  my   eyes  fail,  while  for  my  GOD 
•    I  wait  attentively* 

4  Thofe   men   who  for  no  caufe  at  all 

to  me   great  hatred  bear 
More  than   the  hairs  upon    my  head 

increas'd  in   number    are. 
Yea  mighty  are  my   caufelefs  foes, 

who  would  me  hurt  and  flay  -f 
Then  I  refigned  and   gave  up 

what  I  ne'er  took   away. 
[  2   Part.  ] 

5  O  GOD,  Thou  know'ft  my  foolimnefs, 

Thou  doft  it  fully  fee; 
And  all  my  .faults  of  life  and  heart, 
lie  open  clear  to  Thee. 

6  Lord,  LORD  J  of  hofls,  let  none  who  wait 

on  Thee  have  fhame  for  me  ; 
Nor  thofe  who  feek   Thee,   Ifra'el's  God, 
for  me   confounded  be. 

*j  Becaufe  'tis  only  for  thy  fake, 
I   fuffer  this   difgrace  ; 
And  for  Thy  fake  alone  it  is, 
confufion  fpreads  my  face. 
8  For  Thee,  to  my  own  brethren  1 
■  a  ftranger  quite  became  ; 
And  to  my  mother's  children  I 
an  utter   alien   am. 

£  For  of  thy  houfe  the  fervent  zeal 
hath  ev'n  confumed  me  ;  || 
And  on  me  their  reproaches  fell, 

who  have   reproached  Thee.  io  My 

%  Hebrew— -.rfjfojM/,  Jehovah. 
|j  Applied  to  Christ,  Job.  n.  17, 


PSALM    LX1X.  tis 

I*  My  weeping,  fading,   grief  of  foul, 
to  my  reproach  were  turn'd  j, 

11  A  proverb  to  them  I  became, 

when  I  in  fackcloth  mourn'd. 

12  Who  fat  in  gates  of  dignity, 

on   me  did  cenfures    pafs  ; 
And   I  the  fubjecl:   of  the  fong 
of   ftupid   drunkards   was. 
J  3  But,  LORD,  in  an  accepted  time 
I  make  my  pray'r  to  Thee  : 
In  thy  great  mercy,  O  my  GOD, 
and  faving  #  truth  *  hear  me. 

[  3  P^t.  ] 

14  O  refcue  me  out  of  the  mire, 

and  me  from  finking  keep  : 
Free  me  from  thofe  who  hate  my  foul* 
and  out  of  waters   deep* 

15  Let  not  the  floods   me  overflow, 

nor  the   deep  fwallow  me, 
Nor  mouth  of  the  devouring  grave 
upon  me   clofed  be. 

16  LORD  hear  me  :   for  exceeding  good 

is   thy  benignity  ; 
And  in  thy  mercies  jnultitude 
O  turn  and  look  *  to  me. 

17  O  do  not  from  thy  fervant  hide 

thy    countenance    away  ; 
For  I  in  grievous  trouble  am  r 
hear  me   without  delay. 

18  O  draw  Thou  near  my  troubled  foul, 

redeem   and  fet   it  free  ; 
And  from   my  powerful  enemies, 
do  Thou   deliver   me* 
j 9  Thou  knoweft  all  my  vile  reproach, 
my  (name,   and  my  difgrace  : 
Mine  adverfaries  and  their  plots 
are  all  before   thy  face. 

20  My 


!i<5  PSALM    LX1X. 

20  My  heart  is  broken  with  reproach, 

and  full   of  heavinefs  : 
I  look'd,  but   found   no   comforter, 
not  one  to  give  me  eafe. 

21  But  bitter  gall  was   all    the   food 

they  to  me  orTer'd  have  ;    ' 
And  in  my  parching  tbirft.,    for  drink 
marp  vinegar  they  gave.  |j 

£  4  P-a'rt,  ] 

22  Before  them    mail    their    tuble  prove 

a  fnare  :  and  Thou  wilt  make 
Their    temporal    profperity 
a  trap   themfelves   to  take. 

23  Thick  darknefs  on  their  eyes  fhall  come, 

that  they   fhall    nothing  fee  : 
And  .thou  malt  make  their  loins  to  fhake  - 
for    fear   continually. 

24  Thou  wilt  thine  .anger  on  them  pour  ; 

thy  wrath  lhall  feize  them  faft  :* 

25  Their  palace    fhall   be  defolate  ; 

and  a!i  their  tents  be  wafle  :  f 

26  For,  him  whom  Thou  hail  fmitten  down* 

they  perfecute  the  more  ; 
And  vex  him  with  malicious  words, 
whom  Thou  dicft  wound   before. 

27  Thou  wilt  them  therefore  juflly   leave 

to   add  more   fin   to    fin  ; 
And   they   thy  paths   of  righteoufnefs 

fhall    never   enter  in. 
.28  Out   of  the  book  of  living  ones 

Thou    wilt  them-  wholly  blot  ; 
And   in  the  roll   of   righteous   men, 

they   never   (hall   be  wrote. 

[  5  P*"-  ] 

$  Applied  to  Christ, — Mat.  xxvii.  Mark  xv,  John  xix« 
f  Applied  to  Judas  Ifcarioc,  A&a  i.  20* 


PSALM     LXX.  117 

[   5  Part.  ] 

29  I'm  poor,   diftrefs'd  :  falvation   grant  ; 

raife   me,    O   GOD,   on    high. 

30  I'll  praife  the  name  of  GOD   with  fongs, 

with    thanks    Him   magnify. 

31  This  will  be   pleafing  to  the   LORD, 

and   better  in   his  eyes, 
Than   any  bullocks  fat  f  and  young,  £ 
mature  for  facrifice.  || 

32  And  when   the  humble  this  mall  fee, 

it   joy   to    them  will    give  : 
And  ye  who  feek  the  blefied   GOD, 
your    heart    (hall    ever   live. 

33  Becaufc   JEHOVAH    hears   the  poor, 

his   prif'ners   won't   defpife  ; 

34  Let  heav'ns,  earth,  feas,  and  ev'ry  thing 

that    moves    therein   Him    praife. 

35  For  GOD   will  Judah's   cities    build, 

and    Zion    he    will    fave  ; 
That  they  may  dwell  therein,   and  thera 
for    their    poffeilion    have. 

36  The    children   of  his   fervants  too 

inherit  mall    the    fame  ; 
And   thofe   mail  have  their  dwelling  there 
who   truly   love    his   name. 

PSALM     LXX. 
A  Pfahn  of  David,  to  bring  to  Remembrance* 

1  (^\   GOD,  from   my  diftrefs, 
V_>/     siake    hafte   to  fet  me    free  : 

O   LORD,   with  fpeed   do   Thou    afford 
thy  faving  help    to    me. 

2  Let  them   who  feek    my  foul, 

be    made  to   blufh.    with  fliame    ; 
And   with    confufion    turned    back 
who  make  my   hurt  their    aim. 

3  They 

■f-  So  the  Cbaldee  and  Syriack. 

X  So  the   Septuagint,  ancient  Latin  and  J,\.:':ch, 

\\  So  Aitij'WQrtb  and  Gejer, 


u9  PSALM    LXXI. 

3  They  mall  be  turned  back, 

with    fhame    confounded  be  ; 
As  a  juft  recompence  to  them 
for    their    infulting   me. 

4  Let  all  who   feek   thy  face 

be  glad  and  joy  in    Thee  ; 
Who  thy   falvation   love,   fay   ftill, 
"  GOD   magnified   be." 

5  But  I'm  diftrefs'd,   O   GOD  : 

make  hafte  to  me,  I   pray  ; 
For  Thou  my  help  and  faviour  art, 
O  LORD,  make  no  delay. 

PSALM    LXXI. 

i    TEHOVAH,  in  my  great  diftrefs 
J      I  "place  my   truft   in   Thee  : 
O  let  me   not  be  put   to   fhame 
to  perpetuity.  * 

2  But  in   thy  truth    and  righteoufnefs  j( 

refcue  and  fet   me  free  : 
O  bow  to  me  thy  gracious  ear, 
and   fave  me   fpeedily. 

3  Be  Thou  the  rock  where  I  may  dwell, 

and   conflantly   refort  : 
To  fave   me  Thou   commanded   haft, 
who    art  my  rock  and  fort. 

4  My  God,  free  me  from  wicked  hands, 

hands    cruel,    as   unjuft  ; 

5  For  Lord  JEHOVAH  %  Thou  my  hope, 

and   from  my   youth  my  truft  ; 

6  Thou  haft  upheld  me  from   my  birth, 

thro'  all  my  dang'rous   days  ; 
Yea,  from  my  mother's  womb  me  took  ; 
and   I'll   Thee  ever  praife. 

[  2  Part.  1 

(j  The  Hebrew  feems  to  include  hoXhRigbteoufneJi  and  Truth. 
t  Hsbnw—AdQnaJ,  Jbhovah, 


PSALM    LXXL  ii? 

[  2   Part.   ] 

7  To   many  I    a   wonder  am  : 

be  Thou  my   refuge  ftrong  ; 

8  And  Jet  my  mouth   refound  thy  .praife 

and  honour,   all  day  long. 

9  In    time  of  my   declining    age 

O  caft  me   not  from   Thee  : 
And    as   I   find   my  ftrength   decay 
O   now   forfake   not   me. 

io  For  my  malicious  enemies 

againil   me    falfely  fpeak  ; 
And  they   who   for  my  foul  lay  wait 
together    counfel  take. 

11  For  GOD,  they  fay,  hath  him  forfook, 

'  Now  per  fee  ute    ye  him, 
And  feize   him  Now  ;   for  there  is  none 
*  to   fave,    or  him    redeem.' 

12  O  GOD,   in  this    my  great  diflrefs, 

be   Thou   not   far   from   me  ; 
But  for  my  help,   O  Thou  my  God, 
come    to   me   fpeedily. 

[    3    P*»*   1 

14  But  I  with  hope   and   patience   flill 

on  Thee  will   waiting  be  ; 
And  I   will  add  yet  more  and  more 
to   all    the    piaife   of  Thee. 

15  My  mouth  (hall  forth  thy  righteoufnefs, 

and  thy  falvation  mow, 
From  day  to   day  ;  for  of  the  fame 
no  number  do  I   know. 

16  I  in  the   ftrength    of  God   the  LORD 

with    joy  will    flill    go    on  ; 
I'll    celebrate  thy  righteoufnefs, 
yea  mention  thine    alone. 
[7  From  my  youth    up,  O  gracious  GOD, 

Thou  hall  inftru&ed    me  :'  # 

And  hitherto   I  have    dechir'd 

the  wonders  wrough    07  Thee.  18  And 


iso  PSALM    LXXII. 

1 8  And  now  forfake  me  not,   O  GOD, 

while  old    and  grey  I   grow  ;      - 
Till    to   this  age,   and  all   to    come 
thy    mighty    pow'r    I    fhow. 

19  Alfo  thy  righteoufnefs,   O    GOD, 

is    high    exceedingly, 
Great  are  the  things  which  Thou  haft  wrought, 
O  GOD,   who's  like   to   Thee  ! 

[  4  P**-  1 

20  Thou,  who  haft  caufed  me   to  fee 

afflictions  great    and   fore, 
Wilt  turn,   revive  me,  and  with  joy 

from   depths   of  earth   reftore. 
2  1  Yea  more  than  this  ;  Thou  wilt  ev'n  caufe 

my    greatnefs    to    abound  ; 
And   with    exceeding  comfort  Thou 

wilt   wholly  me  furround. 

22  I  with    the   pfalt'ry  will   Thee   praife, 

Thy  truth,   my    God,  make   known  ; 
And   with  the  harp  I'll   fing   to   thee, 
O   Ifr'efs    Holy  One. 

23  Now    gieatly  ~will    my   lips    rejoice, 

while    I    fing  praife  to   Thee  ; 
So  Hi  A\    my  foul   becaufe    thou    haft 
redeem'd    and  fet   it  free. 

24  And  as  Thou    thofe  who  fought  my   hurt 

confounded    haft   with    fhame  : 
My   grateful    tongue   thy   righteoufnefs 
fhall   ev*ry    day  proclaim. 

/    S  A  L  M  LXXII.  A  Pfalmfor  Solomon. 
[As  the-  Typical  M  ESS  I  AH  ;  but  with  a  vaflly  higher 
Visto  to  the  Unitii  rfal  happy  and  eternal  Reign 
of  CHRIST   the    Real.] 

1  {\    GOD,  Thy  judgments  give  the  King, 
V  /      Thy  righteoufnefs  give  to   his  Son  : 

2  Tii-ii    he'll    thy   people    rightly  judge, 
And    to   thy   poor  iee  juitice  done. 

3  The 


PSALM    LXXII.  121 

3  The   mountains   mail   abundantly 

To  all  the   people  bring   forth  peace  ; 
And  all   the  little  hills   abound 
With   joyful  fruits  of  righteoufnefs. 

4  Poor   of  the  people  he  will  judge, 
And  children   of  the  needy  fave  : 
He  will  to   pieces    break   all  thofe 
Who  with  their  fraud  opprefTed  have. 

5  They  mall  Thee  fear  while  fun  and  moon 
Endure,   thro'    generations    all  : 

6  Like   rain  on   mown   grafs  he  will    come, 
As  (how'rs  on  earth   diftiliing  fall. 

7  The  righteous   (hall   lift   up   their  heads, 
Rejoice   and   flourifh    in   his  reign  ; 

And   till  the   moon  to  mine   mall   ceafe, 
He  will  abundant'  peace    maintain. 

8  His   great   and   blefsM  dominion  (hall 
Abroad  from   fea   to  fea  extend  ; 
And  from  the  river  |j  it  mail  reach 
Quite   to   the   earth's   remoter!   end. 

9  They  in  the  wildernefs  who   dwell, 
In   homage   bow  before  him  muft  ; 
His   foes  mail,   falling  at  his   feet, 
In  low   proftration   lick   the  duft. 

[   2  Part.  ] 
io  The  kings   of  Tarfnifh    and   the   Ifles, 

To  him  mail   coftly  prefents   bring  ; 

Sheba's    and   Seba's   kings    their    gifts 

To  him  as  their    fuperior   King. 
I  I  Yea  all   the  kings  throughout   the  earth, 

To  him   mail   bow,  and  homage    pay  ; 

And  all   the  nations   of  the   world 

Shall  Him  as  the  fupream  obey. 

13  Becaufe  he   will   the   needy   fave, 
When    they   to"  him   for   fuccour   call, 
Thofe    who   afflicted  are,     and  thofe 
Who   have  no   human   help    at  all. 

G  /3  The 

II  i,e,  The  great  River  Euphrates^ 


122  PSALM    LXXII. 

13  The   feeble  and  neceflitous, 

He  will  in    tender   pity   fpare  ; 

He   will  preferve   and  fave   the   fouls 

Of  thofe   who    poor    and  needy  are. 

14  Their    fculs   from  fraud    and   violence 
His    pow'r    and    mercy   will    redeem  ; 
And  in   his  eyes   their   blood  fliall  he 
Of  precious   worth  and  high    efteem. 

15  Long  mall   he  live;  and   they  fhall   bring 
To   him   of  Sheba's  fineft   gold  : 
Pray'rs   fhall  be   always    made   for   him, 
And  daily   he   mail   be  extoll'd. 

16  Of  corn  an    handful    in  the  earth  * 
Tho'   on  the  tops   of  mountains   fown, 
The  fruit    mail   rife,  increafe   and  wave 
Like  the  tall   trees   of  Lebanon. 

And    they  who  in   the   city    dwell 
Shall   greatly    flourifh    and    abound, 
In   numbers   like  the  fertile  grafs, 
Which  grows  upon  the  richeft  ground. 

17  His  name  for  ever  mail  endure, 
And  mall  continue  as  the  fun  ; 
In  him  all  nations   fhall   be  bleft, 

And   him   proclaim    the   blessed   One. 
jS  O   let  JEHOVAH   bleffed   be, 
The  GOD,  the  God   of  Ifrael  : 
For  by  Himfelf  alone   he    works 
Such  things    as   wondrous    are  to  tell. 

39  O   let  his  glorious  name  be   blefs'd, 
Eternal  as  his  happy   reign  : 
And  let  his  glory  fill   the   earth  ; 
Repeat  aloud,  Amen,    Amen. 
[  Common    Metre.  ] 

18  O   let  the   LORD   GOD^bldTed  be, 

the  GOD    of  Ifrael  : 
Tor   by  Himfelf  alone   he  works, 
things  wonderful   to  tell. 


19  O 


PSALM    LXXIII.  123 

19  O  let  his    glorious    Name    be   blefs'd, 
eternal   as  his    reign  ; 
And  let  his   glory   fill   the  earth  : 
repent,    A  men,    Amen. 

P  S  Ah  M    LXXIII.     A  Pfalm  o/Afaph. 

1  QURE  GOO    is    goo4  to   li -  el, 
O      to   thofe   in    heart    fincere  : 

2  But   as  for   me,    my   feet    had    flipta 

and    nigh    to   falling   were. 

3  For   I   was  envious    and   griev'd, 

the    foolifh    ones    to    Tee  ; 
And   the  ungodly,  while   they  iiv'd 
in  great   profperity. 

4  When    they  feem'xi  free  from  bands  of  deitb  ; 

their   ftrength    feem'd   firm    and   iure  ; 

5  No  plagues   had  they,  nor  griefs,  nor  pains, 

as  other  men    endure. 

6  With   pride   as    with    a   chain  of  gold 

encompaiTed   they    are  ; 
And  clcath'd   with  violence,   the  fame 
as   a  rich   veil  they  wear. 

7  Out  of  the  fulnefs  of  their   fat 

extended  are  tneir   eyes  : 
And   they    more  profp'rous   ilate  enjoy, 
than   what   their  hearts   devife. 
&  Corrupted    are    they,   and    by    words 
in   malice    cut    they    break  ; 
Opprellion   openly    maintain, 
and  loftily   they  fpeak. 

9  Againft  the  heav'ns   they    fet  themfelves, 
with  daring  mouths   they  talk  ; 
And  with  mifchievous,    lawlefs  tongues, 
throughout  the   earth   they  walk. 
[    2   Part.   ] 
19  From    hence  his    people  hither    turn ; 
to   this  perplexing   doubt  ; 
When  waters   of  full  bitter    cups 
are  to  themfelves  wrung  out, 

G  2  11  And 


I24  PSALM    LXX1II. 

ii  And  in  their  folly  thus  they  fay; 

'  How   does  God  all   things   know  ? 
'  Does   the  mod  High  look  down   and  fee 
'  all  things  done  here   below  V 

12  '  Behold  thefe  the    ungodly   are, 

'  who  live  in  eafe  and  peace  ; 
♦«  And  they  who   profper  in   the  world, 
'  whofe    riches  ftill  increafe. 

13  c  Sure    I  have  wafh'd  my  heart  and  hands 

*  in  innocence  in  vain  : 

14  '  For  ev'ry  day  I    plagu'd  have    been, 

'  each  morning  fcourg'd  with  pain,' 

1$  But   if  to   fpeak  at   fuch    a   rate 
I   lafhly  mould  pretend, 
Of  thy  dear   children    I   the  race 
mould  grievoufly  offend. 

16  When  this   I   thought   to   underfland, 

it  was    too    hard  for   me  ; 

17  Till  to   the   houfe  of  God   I   went, 

where    I   their  end  did   fee. 

18  For  fure  on  places   ilippery, 

thefe  men   difpos'd  Thou    hall:  ; 
And  down  into  deflruction   deep, 
Thou  doll:  them   quickly  call. 

19  How  in   a  moment  unawares 

to  ruin    brought    are    they  ? 
And   how  with   terrors    utterly 
mail  they  confume  away  ? 

30  Like  a  vain   dream  when  one   awakes, 
away  their   glory  flies  ; 
And   when  O   Lord,  Thou  rifeft  up, 
Thou   wilt   their   iliade  defpife. 

[   3  P*rt-   ] 

21  So   weak    and  troubled   was    my   heart, 
my   reins   were  pierc'd  in  me  ; 

2  2*  So  foolifh  I  and  ignorant, 

ev'n  as  a  beaft  with  Thee. 

23  Neverthelefs 


PSALM    LXXIV.  125 

23  Neverthelefs  continually, 

before  Thee    yet  I    ftand  ; 
Thou    haft   me   alfo   ftedfaftly 
upheld   by    my   right   hand. 

24  Thou   with  thy  conftant   counfel  wilt 

direction   to  me  give  ; 
Up    afterward  Thou  wilt  on    high 
to  glory  me    receive. 

25  In  heav'n  above  but   Thee  alone, 

who  is  it  that  I  have  ? 
And  there  is  nothing   on   the   earth 
befides  Thee   that   I  crave. 

26  My   fkfh  and  heart    intirely  fail, 

but  Thou    wilt    me    reflore  ; 
For  of  my  heart  GOD  is   the  ftrength, 
my   portion   evermore. 

27  But  lo,  they  that  are  far  from  Thee, 

mall  utterly    decay  ; 
And   all  who   faithlefs   ftray  from  Thee, 
Thou  wilt  confume   away. 

28  Whereas  for  me,  'tis  good   that  I 

ftill   near   to   GOD  repair ; 
I  on  the  Lord  JEHOVAH  truft, 
thy  works   all   to   declare. 

PSALM  LXXIV.     Mafchil  of  Afaph. 

1  TTTTHEREFORE,  O   GOD,  for  evermore 

VV       haft  Thou   rejected  us  ? 
Why   fmoaks  thy  wrath   againft  the  ftieep 
of  thine  own  pafture .  thus  ? 

2  O  mind  thy  Hock   Thou  bought'ft  of  old. 

this   heritage    of  thine, 
By  Thee  redeem'd,  and  Zion-hill, 
where  Thou  didft  dwell  and  mine. 

3  O  lift   thy  feet,   and   come  and  view 

the    utter   ruins   wrought  ; 
And  what  the  foe  with  wicked  rage 
hath  on  thy  temple  brought. 

G  3  4  For 


12(5  PSALM    LXXIV. 

4  For  where   thy   congregations   met, 

thy   foes    roar  hideoufly  ; 
And  there   for    figns    of  triumph  fet 
their   enilgns    up    on    high. 

5  The  man   who   feil'd  thick  trees    to   build 

thy   temple,    had    renown  ; 

6  Bin   now' thy  foes   in   fpite   and   rage 

beat  all   the   carvings   down. 

7  They  call:  thy   holy    houfe  into  * 

the  fierce  devouring  flame, 
And  throwing  to  the   ground,    defile 
the  dwelling  pi   thy  name. 

8  Yea,  now  faid  they,  we'll  break  *  them  all 

with   our   reGftiefs    hand  ; 
And  burn  up   all  the  fynagogues 
ofr  God  throughout    the   land. 

[   2   Part.   ] 

9  We  fee  no  more  our  wonted  figns, 

cur   prophets    ail    are   gone  ; 
To  tell  us  when  thefe  things  mail  end, 
among  us   there  is  none. 

10  How  long   Oral!  thefe   infuiting  foes 

Thee  nvgh'y  GOD  defame  ? 
Or    mall  they   always    be    allow'd 
thus    to    blafpheme   thy    name  ? 

11  O  wherefore  thy  right  hand  of  pow'r 

doft  Thou    from- us   reftrain  ? 
Out    of  thy   boforn   now    for   us, 
draw    forth    the   fame  ■  again. 

12  For   GOD  the   mighty  is   my    king, 

ev'n    from   the   time   of  old, 
"Working"  in   rnidit-  of  all   the    earth 
falvations   manifold. 

I ^  Thou   didil  the   mighty  fea  divide 
by  thy  fuperiour  pow'r  ; 
Ar.d   break  the   dragons  dreadful   heads, 
who   thro'   the   waters   roar.  r~. 


PSALM    LXX1V.  127 

14  The  heads    of  the    leviathan  || 

to    pieces    Thou    didft   break  ; 
To  thofe  who  in  the   defart   dwelt, 
for   meat  Thou  didil  him    make. 

15  Thou  clav'ft  the  fountain  and  the  flood, 

Thou  bidft  the  ftreams    to  flow  ; 
Thou   dry'ft   the    mighty    rivers    up, 
to   lead,  thy   people    through. 

16  The   cheerful    day,    the    gloomy    night, 

Thou   mak'ft,    and  they  are   thine  ; 
Thou  haft    prepar'd  the    beauteous   light, 
and  made   the .  fun   to  fhine. 

17  Thou    all   the    borders   of  the    earth 

haft   fet    by    thy    decree : 
The    fummer    and    the    winter  both 
are  made   and  ruPd.  by   Thee. 

[  fo&i  1 

18  O  LORD,    remember  how  the   foe 

does   ev'n  Thy  felf  defame  ; 

And  how   the  foclifh   people  dare 

blafpheme  thy  facred  name. 

19  O    do   not   to  this   multitude 

thy  turtle's   foul    give    o'er ; 
For  ever    do    not  Thou    forget 
th'   afTembly    of  thy    poor. 

20  Thy  facred   covenant   regard  : 

for   round   about  we   fee 
The  earth's    dark   places   filled    with 
the  feats  of  cruelty. 

21  O  let  not  thofe  who  are  opprefs'd, 

ever  return    with   fhame  ; 
But  let  the    deftitute  and  poor, 
for  ever  praife  thy   name. 

G  4  22  Arife 

11  i.  e.  not  only  Pharaob,  but  alio  Am*U\t  K,  Aradt  Sitm, 
Ogg  and  B«lak% 


ij8  PSALM    LXXV. 

22  Arife,  O  GOD,  plead  thine  own  caufe  i 

and  have  in    memory, 
How  day   by  day   the  foolifh   man 
mocks  and  reproaches  Thee. 

23  Forget  not  Thou  the  voice  of  thofe 

who  are  thine  enemies  : 
Their  noife  and   tumults  daily  grow, 
who   up  againft   Thee   rife. 

PSALM    LXXV. 
A  Pjalm   or   Song    of  Afaph. 

1  HPO  Thee,  O   GOD,   we   render  thanks, 

J_        to    Thee   with   praife    repair  j 
For,  that  thy  blefled   name  is  near, 
thy  wondrous  works  declare. 

2  When  1  f  th*  appointed  feafon  %  take, 

which  fhall  the  fitted  be; 
Then  judgment  done  to  ev'ry  one 
in  righteoufnefs  I'll  fee. 

3  The  earth  would  quickly  all   diflolve, 

v/ith  all  who  dwell  therein  ; 
But  I   the    trembling  pillars   ftay, 
and  firmly   them   fuilain.     (Stiah.) 

4  I   to  the    foolifh   people  faid, 

deal    not   fo    foolifnly  ; 
And  to    the  wicked  and  the  proud, 
lift  not   the  horn   on    high. 

5  Raife   not  your   horn   aloft,  as  M 

ye   dared  the   moil  High  ; 
But   bow  your  ftifT'ned  neck,  and  learn 
to   fpeak  fubmiflively. 

6  For   the  promotion  which   ft  feek 

comes  neither  from  the  eaft, 
Nor  from  the  mountains  *  nor  the  fouth, 
the   defart,  *  nor   the  weft.  „ 

•f  i.  c.  not  Jfapb,  but  GOD,  ver.  7.  &c.  and  fo  Mariana, 

Grotiut,  Muis,  Hammond. 
~\  So  all  the  ar.cient  Verfiom,    Cafiali;  Montanus,   Pagnirti^ 

Englijh  Margin,  Hammond,  &c» 


PSALM    LXXVI.  129 

7  But  GOD    alone  is  judge   fupream, 

and  acts    with    equity  ; 
His  pieafure  one  man   puts  below, 
and   fets   another   high. 

8  For  in  JEHOVAH'S   fovereign  hand, 

a  mixed  enp   He  hath  ; 
The  wine  above  is   fparkling  red, 
below   are   dregs  of   wrath. 

From  thence  He   pours   to  all  around, 

to  each  as   He   does  pleafe  ; 
But  all  the  wicked  wring  the   dregs, 

and  drink  the   bitter   lees. 

9  But  I'll  j|   extol,   and  ever  ling 

the  God  of  Jacob's   praife  : 

10  The   wicked's   pow'r   I    will    deflroy, 

the  juft   to  pow'r  I'll   raife. 

PSALM    LXXVI. 

A  Pfalm    or   Song    of  A  fa  ph. 

1  TN   Judah  GOD    is   known  1  his   name 
i     is  great  in   Ifrael  : 

2  In   Salem    his    pavilion    is  : 

in    Zion   He  does  dwell  : 

3  There  He   the   burning  arrows  *   brake, 

the  bow,  fhield,  fword  and  war  :     ( '  Selah.  J 

4  More  glorious  Thou   than   mounts   of  prey, 

more    excellent   by  far. 

5  They   that    were   ftout  of  heart   are   fpoil'd, 

in  fleep  of  death    they  fall  : 
The   mighty   could   not   find   their   hands  -; 
or  pow'r    to   help    at  all. 

6  O  Thou  of  Jacob   mighty  God, 

at  thy   rebuke  and   blaft 
The  charioteers  and  horfe  into 
the   fleep  of  death    are   call. 

G  5  7  Thou 

J]  i.  e.  Every  one   who  fang  with   Ajapb  ;    comprehending 
David,  aad  all  bis  Princa  aad  JNvbks  round  h«a, 


j3o         PSALM    LXXV1L 

7  Thou,   even  Thou    art   terrible, 

whom  all   mould    greatly  fear  : 

0  who    can    fland  before    thy    face, 
if  once  thy  wrath   appear  ? 

8  When  Thou  didft  from  the  heav'ns  on    high 

caofe  judgment  to  be  heard  ; 
The  earth  in  awful   filence  flood, 
exceedingly  it   fear'd; 

9  When   GOD   his   judgment  to  difpenfe 

up  as  a  judge  arofe, 
The  meek  of  all  the  earth  to  fave 

from  all  their   mighty  foes.     ( Selak.) 
io  AfTurediy  the   wrath  of  men 

fhall  praifes  to  Thee    gain  ; 
And   the    remainder  of  their  wrath, 

Thou  furely  wilt  reftrain. 

n  Vow  to  the  LORD  your  God,  and  pay, 
all   ye  that   round    Him   are  ; 
To   Him  who  is   raoft  terrible, 
your   prefents    bring   with   fear. 
j  i  The  fphit  that   in   princes    is, 
afunder  cut  will  He  ; 
And   to  the    kings   throughout   the  earth 
He  terrible  will  be. 

PSJLM   LXXVII.     A  Pfalm  o/Afaph. 

1  T  With    my    voice  to    GOD   did  cry  ; 

\,     yea  with  my  voice   aloud 

1  cry'd  to   GOD  ;  and  gracioufly 
to  me  his  ear  He   bow'd. 

2  In  my   diftrefs  I  fought  the  Lord, 

my  fore  ran   in    the  night, 
And  ceafed   not;   my   foul  refus'd 
all    comfort   and    delight. 

3  I  thought  on  GOD   and  troubled(  waj 

yet   more;   without  relief ; 
I    meditated  *  till  my   foul 
was  overwhelmed   with   grief.    (Selah.) 

4  Io 


PSALM    LXXVII.         131 

4  In  cv'ry  watch   of  tedious  night, 

Thou  kepft  my  foul  awake ; 
My  trouble  fweli'd  to  fuch  excefs, 
I  groan'd,  but  could  not  fpeak. 

5  I  call'd  to  mind  the  days  of  old, 

with   fignal    mercies    crown'd ; 
Thofe   famous   years   of  ancient  time, 
for   wondrous   works    renown'd. 

6  Yea,  to    my    mem'ry  I  recali'd 

the   fongs    by   night   I  had  ; 
I  ccmmun'd  with   my  thoughtful   heart, 
ftrict  fearch  ray  fpirit  made. 
[   2   Part.   ] 

7  Alafs  !  faid   I,    what   will  the  Lord, 

caft  off,  and   not  reftore  ? 
And   from   henceforth  will   He   afford 
no  favour  any  more  ? 

8  Is   all   his  mercy    ceas'd   and  gone  ? 

mull  that   no    more  avail  ? 
The  gracious    promifes  He  made, 
mail  they  for  ever  fail  ? 

9  Or  is  it  true,  that  to  be  kind, 

my  God  forgotten  hath  ? 
And  that  his  tender  mercies  He 
hath  fhut  up  in  his   wrath  ? 

10  Then  faid  I,   this  my  weaknefs   b» 

who   have   no  pow'r    to  ftand  ; 
But    I'll   remember   the   rnoft   High, 
and  years   of  his  right  hand. 

1 1  The   works  of  JAH  *  Til  call  to  mind, 

his    actions   manifold  ; 
I'll  furely  to  remembrance  call 

thy  wondrous   works   of  old. 
\%  On  all  thy   works  I'll   meditate, 

and  of  thy  doings  talk. 

13  Thy  way,  O   GOD,  is  Holinefs,  % 

where  Thou  doft  ever  walk.      r      n        -, 

[  3  Part,  ] 

\  Hebrew,  Arabic*)  Pagnhc,  Mintanz,    T'gurhe  Fcrjlo*. 
and  Tremeliuu 


132        PS  A  L  M    LXXVIIL 

[  3   Part.  ] 

14  What  God   fo  gieat  as  our  GOD   is? 

Thou  God,  haft  wonders  done  : 
Among  the  people  Thou  thy  ftrength 
haft  openly  made  known. 

15  Thy  people   Thou  from   bondage  haft 

by  thy  flrong  arm  fet   free  ; 
Of  Jofeph  and  of  Ifrael, 

the  vaft  posterity.     ( Selah.) 

16  Thee  did  the  waters  fee,  O   GOD, 

Thee  fee  with  trembling    fear  : 
The  mighty  deeps   with   all   their  waves, 
in   great  commotion   were. 

17  The  clouds  their  floods  of  water  pour'd, 

the    ikies  fent  forth  a  found  ; 
Thine    arrows   in   thy   ftorms    of  hail 
flew  terribly   around. 

18  Thy    dreadful   voice   from   heaven   above 

in   roaring   thunders   broke  : 
Thy  light'nings  blaz'd  throughout  the  world, 
the  earth  in  horror  fhook. 

19  Thy   way   was  in   the  troubled   fea, 

a  wondrous  way  was   mown ; 
Thy  paths  thro'  mighty  waters  were, 
thy  Heps  cannot  be  known. 

20  By  Mofes  and  by  Aaron's  hand,  . 

Thou,  as   thy  people's  head, 
Thro'  the  vaft  defart,  like  a  flock, 
didft  them  in  fafety  lead. 

PSALM   LXXVIII.    Mafchil  o/Afaph. 

1  A  TTEND  my  people  to  my  law, 
J.JL     incline  your  lift'ning  ear  ; 
And  the  inftruclion  of  my   mouth* 

v/ith  ftricl  attention  hear. 

2  My  mouth  (hall  parables  explain, 

and    fayings    dark  of  old  ; 

3  What  we  our  felves   have   heard  and  known, 

;;nd  what  our  fathers   told, 

4  Them 


PSALM    LXXVIII. 


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4  Them   from  their   children   we'll  not  hide, 

but  to   their   race  make   known, 
JEHOVAH's  praifes,   and  his   flrength, 
and  wonders  he   hath  done. 

5  This   Itatute  He   in   Jacob   fet, 

this  law  in  Ifr'el  made, 
And  charg'd  our  fathers,  they  mould  be 
from   race   to   race   convey'd : 

6  That  generations  yet   to   come, 

them   happily  may  know  ; 
And  children   to  be  born   and   rife, 
the  fame  to   their's    may  fliow. 

7  That   they   on    the  fame  mighty   GOD 

their  confidence  might  fet, 
God's  works  and  his  commandments  keep, 
and  never  might  forget. 

S  And   might  not  like  their  fathers  be, 
a  ftifF,  rebellious   race  ; 
A  race   whofe  heart  not  right  with  God, 
nor  fpirit  ftedfaft   was. 

[   2   Part.   ] 

9  The  fons  of  Ephraim,  tho'  well  arm'd, 
and    carrying    warlike   bows, 
Yet  in  the    d*y    of  battle    turn'd 
their  backs   before  their    foes. 

10  GOD's   covenant  they    neither  kept, 

nor  in  his    law    would   go  : 

1 1  His   works  and  wonders   they  forgot, 

which  He   to  them  did  mow. 

12  Things  marvellous  which  he  perform*d, 

their  fathers   had  beheld  ; 
Within  the  land  of  Egypt  wrought, 
and  done  in   Zoan's  field. 

13  He  cut  the  fea,  and  made  them  pafs, 

held   back   the   preffing   flood ; 
While  up  in   heaps  on  either  fide, 
the  waters  firmly  flood, 

14  He 


134        PSALM    LXXVIII. 

14  He  led   them  with  a  wondrous  cloud* 

compos'd  of  made  and  light ; 
A  fhelt'ring  (hade  it    prov*d  by  day, 
a   light  of  fire    by   night. 

15  While  in  the  thirfly  wildernefs, 

the  folid  rock   He  clave  ; 
And  thence,  as  from  the  boundlefs   deept, 
abundant  f  drink   He   gave. 

16  Yea  from  the  flinty   rock  He  made 

fuch  ftreams  to  gum   and    flow, 
That   in   full  rivers  down  they   ran, 
and  water'd  all  below. 

C   3   ?*rt.  ] 

17  And  yet  for  all,  they  more  and  more 

againft  Him  did    tranfgrefs  ; 
And  more   provoked   the  moft  High, 
while  in   the  wildernsfs. 

18  Firft   in   their   hearts  they  tempted   God, 

and  did  his   pow'r  diftruft  ; 
Then  meat  requir'd,  not  urg'd  by  want, 
but  to  indulge  their  luft. 

?9  Yea  fpake   againft  the  mighty  GOD, 
and  infolently  faid, 

•  Can  God  in   fuch  a   wildernefs, 

■  for   us  a  table  fpread  ? 
30  •  He  fmote  the  flinty  rock  indeed, 
'   and  gufhing  ftreams  enfu'd  j 

*  But  can   He  bread   and  flefh  provide, 
'  for  fuch  a   multitude  ?  * 

21  The  LORD  with  indignation   heard, 
and  kindled   was  a   flame  ; 
On  Jacob,  on   his   Ifrael, 
the    burning   anger   came. 
IS  Becaufe   their   unbelieving   hearts 
would  not  in   GOD   confide, 
Nor   truft   in    his   falvation,    who 
had  them  fo  oft   fupply'd. 

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PSALM    LXXVI1L         13J 

[  4  Part.  ] 

23  The  clouds  He  order'd  ev'ry  night, 

their  cravings  to  relieve ; 
The   doors  of  heav'n  He   op'ned  wide> 
the  choicefr.   food   to  give. 

24  On  them  He  manna  rained   down, 

and  round  about   them  fpread  ; 
The  corn  of  heav'n  He  gave   to  them, 
ev'n   for  their  daily  bread. 

25  So  men  the  food  of  angels  eat, 

were  fed  and  fatisfy'd  ; 
Tea  of  his  bounty  them  with  meat 
He   to  the   full   fupply'd. 

26  He  caus  d  an  eaft  wind  through  the  air 

to  blow   at  his  command  ; 
And   then  He   brought   the  fouth   wind  forth 
by  his   almighty  hand. 

37  He   rain'd  upon  them  living  flefh, 
like  fummer's  duft  for   ftore  ; 
And  fhow'red  down  the   feather'd   fowls 
as  fand  upon  the  more. 

28  Ev'n   in  their  camp   and  round  their  tentfc 

He  let  them   gently  fall. 

29  They  eat,  were  fill'd,  and   their  defire 

He  fully  gave  to  all. 

[   5  Part.  ] 

30  Yet  were  they  not   enftranged  from 

their  luft  and    murm'ring  fin ; 
But  while  their  dainty  meat  was  yet 
their  loathing  mouths  within  ; 

31  The  wrath  of  GOD  again   arofe, 

in  plagues  upon   them  fell ; 
Which   flew  their   fat   ones,  and   fmote  doWB 
the  flow'r  of  Ifrael. 

32  And   yet   for   all^  they  finned   ftilJ  • 

his  gracious   foul  they   grieve  : 
And  though  his  works  moll  wond'rous  were, 
yet  they  would  not  believe. 

33  Therefore 


136        PSALM    LXXVIII. 

33  Therefore  their   finful  days  He   made, 

in   vanity   to   fpend  ; 
Short'ned  f  their  years,  and  made  them  wafte 
in  trouble   to   their  end. 

34  When    He  among   them   flaughters  made, 

they  fought    Him    fpeedily  ; 
Yea  they    return  d,  and   after  God 
enquired    earneftly. 

35  For  then   they  to  remembrance   call'd, 

how  GOD,  their    rock  had  been  ; 
And  how  they  had  the  moft  high  God    # 
their  great  redeemer  feen. 

36  But  bafely  flatterM  with  their  mouths, 

their  tongues   ev'n   to  him  4y'd. 

37  Their  heart  was  falfe,  nor  did  they  in 

his  covenant  abide. 

38  Yet  full   of  mercy,  He  forgave, 

nor   would    them    wholly  ilay, 
Nor  all  his  anger  raife  ;  but  oft 
he  turn'd  his  wrath  away. 

39  For  He  remember'd  they  were  fiefii 

that  could  not  long  remain  ; 
A  wind  that  paffes   quick  away, 
and  ne'r  comes  back  again  I 
[  6  Part.  ] 

40  How  oft  did  they  provoke  Him  there  ? 

how  oft  his  heart  they  griev'd,* 
In  that  fame  wildernefs  where  He 
their  fainting  fouls  reliev'd  ? 

41  Yea  they  perverfely  turned  back, 

and  iernp:e(!   'he  mofl  High  ; 
And  ihey  to  Ifr'el's  holy  One 
fet  bounds,   his    pow'r  to  try. 

42  They  did  not  call  to  mind  his  hand, 

and  that  moft  wondrous  day, 
When  from  oppreiTois  He  them  freed 

and  brought  them  all  away.  j^or 

•^  Septuagint,  Syriack,  ancient  Latin,  Nav-E*&landt 


PSALM    LXXVIII.         137 

43  Nor  all  the  figns  in  Egypt's  land, 

He  wrought  before  their  eyes  ; 
Nor  wonders  done  in  Zoan's  field 
upon  their  enemies. 

44  Their  fprings  and  rivers  turnM.  to  blood, 

that  they  could  drink  no  more  j 

45  Vaft  fwarms  of  flies  and  frogs 

He  fent,  them  to  devour. 

46  To  caterpillars  gave  their  fruit, 

to  locufts  gave  their  toil  : 

47  With  hail  did  He  their  vines  deflroy, 

great  hail  f  their  fig-trees  J  fpoil. 

48  To  ftorms  of  hail  their  cattle  gave, 

which  greatly  them  annoy'd, 
And  then  to  fiery  thunder-bolts, 
_  which  terribly  deftroy'd. 

49  He  on  them  his  hot  anger,  wrath, 

and  indignation  caft, 
By  evil  angels  whom  He  fent, 
to  vex  and  lay  them  wafte. 

50  He  for  his  further  wrath  made  way  ; 

their  fouls  he  did  not  fave 
From  death:  and  to  the  murrain  plague  J. 
their  animals  j|  He  gave. 

51  Then  in  the  land  of  Egypt  He 

did  all  the  firft-born  fmite  ; 

And  in  the  tents  of  cruel  Ham 

the  chief  of  all  their  might. 

52  But  like  a  flock  of  fheep  He  made 

his  people  forth  to  go  ; 
And  in  the  defart  like  a  flock 
with  care  He  led  them  too. 

53  He 

•f*  So  Pagmtte,  Suxtorf,  and  the  Englijb  Margin. 

X  So  Syriack,  Arabick,  and  Pfel.  cv.  33.  as  DeMuis  obferve*. 

H  Hei.  Sept.  Cbaldce,  Syrigck,  Arabkkt  zn&EttgHJb  Mragin. 


i38         PSALM    LXXVIII. 

53  He  led  them  fafely  through  the  deeps ; 

no  caufe  of  fear  they  found  : 
But  in  the  fea's  returning  waves 
their  following  foes  were  drown'd. 

54  His  people  brought  into  the  bounds 

of  this  his  facred  land  ; 
This  mountain  which  He  purchas'd  by 
the  work  of  his  right  hand. 

55  Before  them  call  the  nations  out, 

and  did  their  lands  divide  ; 
And  in  their  tents  he  plac'd  the  tribes 
of  Ifrel  to  refide. 

[  7  P*rt.  ] 

56  Yet  ftill  they  tempted,  ftill  provok'd, 

and  griev'd  the  GOD  moll  High, 
His  facred  tellimonies  they 
would, not  keep  faithfully  : 

57  But  like  their  fathers  turned  back  ; 

and  faithlefnefs  did  fhow  : 
They  turned  quickly  back  jufl  like 
a  bent  deceitful  bow.' 

58  For  they  with  altars  him  provok'd, 

fet  up  in  places  high  ; 
And  with  their  graven  images 
inflaniM    his   jealoufy. 

59  GOD    hearing  this,  was  wroth,  and  loathM 

Ifr'el   with  hatred  great  : 

60  So  Shiloh's  tent  He  left,  the  tent 

He  had  among  men  fet. 

61  Yea  He-£ave  up  his  ark  of  flrength 

into  captivity  : 
His  glory  gave  into  the  hand 
of  a  vile  enemy. 

62  His  people  gave  up  to  the  fword, 

to  its  devouring  rage  ; 
And  was  exceeding  angry  with 
his  chofen  heritage. 

63  The 


PSALM    LXXVIII.         13? 

63  Th;  fire  of  war  confum'd  their  youth, 

their  maids  unmarried  were  : 

64  Their  piiefls  were  flaughter'd  in  the  field, 

no  widows  mcurn'd  them  there,  f 

$5  But  when  the  Lord  arofe   as  one 
who   rous'd  from  fleep  awakes  ; 
Yea  as  a  giant  rais'd  by  wine, 
a  mighty  fhouting  makes. 

66  And  on  his  enemies  behind 

He  made  his  flrokes  to  fall ; 
And  put  them  all  to  open  fhame, 
a  fhame  perpetual. 

[  8  Part.  ] 

67  The  tents  of  Jofeph  He  did  then 

and  Ephraim's  tribe   refufe  : 

68  But   Judah/s  tribe  and  Zion  hill, 

which  he  had  lord,  did   chufe. 

69  And  there  his  fancluary  built, 

like  palaces  on  high  ; 
Like  to  the  earth  He  founded*  hath 
to   perpetuity. 

70  Of  David  his  young  fervant  He 

the  choice   did  kindly  make  ; 
And  from  the  foldings   of  the  fheep 
the  royal  Shepherd  take. 

7 1  From  following  the  *  ewes  with  young. 

He  rais'd  him   up  to  feed 
Ifra'l   his  choice  inheritance, 
his  people,   Jacob's   feed. 

72  So   them   he  as  a   fhepherd   fed  ; 

and  guided    all  the  land, 
In   his    integrity   of  heart, 
and  ikilfulnefs   of  hand. 

PSALM 

•f-  i.  e.  their  Widowi  had  no  Opportunity  to  follow  them  to 
their  Graves  in  Mourning, 


j4o  PSALM    LXXIX. 

PSALM    LXXIX.     A  Pfalm  of  Afaph. 

i  T>  EHOLD,  O  GOD,  how  heathen  foes 
£3     Thine  heritage  invade  ; 
Defile    thy  holy  houfe  ;  in  heaps 
Jerufalem   have  laid. 

2  Thy   fervants  bodies  lying  dead, 

they  caft  forth  to  be  meat 
To  rav'nous  fowls  ;  and  thy  faints  flefh 
to  favage  hearts   to  eat. 

3  Like  water  they  pour'd  out   their  blood 

about   Jerufalem  ; 
Their  mangled  bodies  lay   abroad, 
and  none  to  bury  them. 

4  We  are  become   a  vile  reproach 

to  all  our  neighbours   near; 
Yea   a  deriGon    and   a  feoff 
to  all  who  round   us  are. 

5  How  long,   O  LORD  ?  For  evermore 

mail    thus   thine   anger   laft  ? 

How  long    thy   burning  jealoufy 

like  fire  go    on   and   wafte  ? 

6  Thy  wrath    on   heathens  Thou  wilt   pour, 

who  own  Thee  not  at   all  ; 
And    on   the   kingdoms    round   who   on 
thy  name   refufe   to  call. 

7  For   they  have  cruelly   devour'd 

thy  fervant  Jacob's  race  ; 
And   have   with  fire   and  fword  laid   wafte 
his  ^leafant  dwelling  place. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

8  Mind  not   againft  us    former   fins  ; 

thy  tender  mercies    fhow  : 
Let  them  prevent  us   fpeedily ; 
for  we're  brought    very  low. 

9  Help  for  the  glory   of  thy   Name, 

our   Saviour   God,   this   day  : 
For  thy  Name    fake   deliver  us, 

and  purge  our  fins  away.  io  Why 


PSALM"  LXXX.  141 

10  Why  fay  the   heathen,   where's   your   GOD  ? 

befoie  us  they  (hall   fee, 
When  thy  dear  fervants  blood  they  flied 
{hall   be    reveng'd    by  Thee. 

11  O  let  the  captives  flghs   afcend 

before  thy    face    on    high  5 
And   let   thy   mighty  arm  preferve 
thofe  who  are  doom'd  to  die. 

2  2  But   to  our    neighbour's    bofom  Thou 
wilt  feven-fold   repay, 
For  their   reproach   wherewith,   O    Lord, 
reproached    Thee   have    they. 
«*3  So  we    thy    people   and    thy   flock, 
will   ever  blefs   thy  name  ; 
And  fiom  our  grateful  hearts  thy  praifc 
from  age  to  age  proclaim. 

PSALM    LXXX.     A  Pfalm  «/Afaph. 

1  npHOU  who  lead'ft  Jofeph  as  a  flock, 

i         O  Ifra'Ps   Shepherd  hear ; 
Who  dwell  'fl:  between  the  cherubims, 
mine  forth  in  glory  there. 

2  Before  f  ManaiTeh,  Benjamin, 

and  Ephr'im  :   O  do  Thou 
Stir  up  thy  flrength,  and   quickly  come ; 
to  us  falvation  inow. 

3  Turn  us,  O   GOD,   to  Thee  again, 

and  caufe   thy  countenance 
To  mine  forth   upon  us,    and  we 
mail  have  deliverance. 

4  LORD  GOD  of  holts,  how  long  wilt  Thou, 

thus  in  thine  anger  fmoke, 
Againfl:  thy'  people  and  their  prayers, 
who  Thee  alone  invoke. 

5  Thou,  feedeft  them   with  flowing  tears, 

which  foak  the  bread  they  eat ; 
And  for  their  drink  Thcu  giv*ffc  them  tears 
in  meafure  very  great.  6  Thou 

■j-  The  Tabernacle  including  the  Ark.,    in  the  Wildernefs  g#jng 
before  the  FacC6  of  ManaJJ'eb,  Benjamin  and  Epbtam, 


i4*  PSALM    LXXX. 

6  Thou  makeft  us  a  ftrife  among 

our  neighbours  on  each  fide]; 
Our   foes   with   one  another  vie, 
who  (hall   us  moft  deride. 

7  Turn   us   again,  O    GOD   of  hofts, 

and    caufe  thy    countenance 
To  mine  forth  upon   us,    and   we 
mall  have  deliverance 

[   2   Part.   ] 

6  From  Egypt  Thou   haft   brought  a  vine, 
the  heathen  out  didft  caft  ; 
And   in  the  land   where   once  they   fpread* 
thy   vine  Thou  planted   haft. 

9  Before  it   room  Thou  didft  prepare 
by   thy   fubduing  hand  : 
And  caufing    it   deep   root  to  take, 
it  fpread  and  fiJFd   the  land. 
10  The  mountains    high    and  all   around, 
were  covered  with  her  fhade  ; 
And   like  the    cedar  trees  of  God  * 
her  branches   were   difplay'd. 

li  Yea,  (he  as   far  as  to  the  fea 

her  growing  boughs   did   fend  ; 
And  to  the   mighty   River  J   (lie, 
her  branches    did   extend. 

12  O  why    then   haft   Thou    broken   down, 

its  hedge,  and  laid   it   bare  ; 
That   all   who    pafs  along  the  way 
her  fruitful  branches    tear. 

13  'Tis  wafted  by  the   favage   boar, 

that    rufnes  from  the   wood  ; 
And  all  the  wild  beafts    of  the  field 
devour  it   for   their  food. 

14  O  GOD 

J  The  River  Euphrates  being  the  greateft  near  the  Land  of 
Canaan,  it  went  by  the  cuxae  of  the  River, 


PSALM    LXXXI.  i43 

14  O  GOD  of  hofts,  we  beg  of  Thee, 

return   again,  to  thine  ; 
Look  down  from  heav'n,  behold  and  fee, 
and   vint   this   thy   vine. 

15  The   vineyard  which   with  thy  right   hand 

of  pow'r  Thou    planted  hail:  ; 
The   very  branch    which   for    Thy  felf 
Thou  ftrongly  didft  fet    faft. 

16  But  now  thy  vine  with   fire   confumes, 

her  branches   are    cut  down ; 
At   thy  rebuke   they  fade   away, 
and   perifti   at  thy  frown. 

17  O    with  the   man   of  thy    right   hand, 

let  thy   hand    prefent  be, 
And  with  the   fon  of  man    whom  T^iou 
haft  made   fo.  flrong  for  Thee. 

18  So  by   thy    grace,   we    never  will 

revolt   from    Thee   at.  all  : 
O  cpiick'n    us    now,   and  on  thy  Name 
we   gratefully   will   call. 

19  LORD   GOD   of  hofts,  turn  us  again, 

and  caufe  thy  countenance 
To  ihine  forth   upon   us,   and  we 
/hall   have    deliverance. 

PSALM   LXXXI.    APfahnofhh^ 
1    f^\   To   the   mighty    GOD    our    flrengthj, 
V_>/      fmg    with   a   fhouting  voice  j 
O  to  the   God   of  Jacob   ling, 
and    make   a   joyful    noife. 

2  Take    up  a  Pfalm,    the   timbrel  bring, 

and  with    your  voices  join  ; 
The  pleafant  harp   and   pfaltery, 
in  confort    fweet    combine. 

3  At  the  new  moon,  let   trumpets  blow, 

and  joyful   voices    raife, 
To   celebrate  th*   appointed   time, 

the  folema  day  of  praife.  y 


i44  PSALM   LXXXI. 

4  For  this   to  Ifrael   of  old 

a  facred  precept  was, 
And  by  the   God   of  Jacob  this 

did  for  a  ftatute  pafs.  Q 

5  This  witnefs   He   in  Jofeph   fet, 

when  from   th*   Egyptian   more 
They  went,  and  heard  a  voice  and  fpeech, 
they   never  heard   before. 

6  I   from  the  heavy  burthens  took, 

their   moulders  clear   away ; 
And  I  their   fervile  hands   fet  free 
from  lab'ring  in  clay. 

7  When  thou   waft  in  great   trouble,  thou 

to   Me   for  aid  didft  call  ; 
Witfc   pity  your  diftrefs  I  faw, 

and   fet   you  free   from   all. 
From   thunder   clouds   I   anfwer'd  thee, 

my  fecret  place   on   high, 
And  at  the   ftreams   of  Meribah, 

I  throughly   did   thee   try. 

[   2   Part,  ] 

8  Hear,  O  my   people,  and  my  mind, 

I'll    teftify   to   thee  ; 
To  thee,  O  Ifr'el,    if  thou   wilt, 
but  hearken  now  to   Me  : 

9  Then  know,   that  a  ftrange   God   in  thee, 

I   never   will   allow  ; 
Never  to   any  other  God, 
fhalt  thou  prefume  to  bow. 

10  I  am  the   LORD   thy  God  who  thee 
from   land   of  Egypt  led  ; 
Open   thy  mouth,   and    thou  by  Me 
with  plenty  {halt   be  fed. 

ii  My 

|  i.  e.  either  the  Monthly  New-Moon,  as  Numb.  x.  io.  and 
xxviii.  it— 15  :  See  Lamy  j  or  rather  the  Firft  New- Moon 
beginning  their  Civil  Tear.  Lev.  xxiii.  £3—25,  and  Numb, 
xxix,  i-*6,  So  the  Cbaldee,  Codivyrt,  &c. 


PSALM    LXXXII.         145 

n  My  people   yet   would   not  give  "ear 
to  the   kind   voice   I  fpake  ; 
And    Ifrael    would   not    in   me 
their    full   contentment   take. 

12  So   to  the  bents   of  their   own  hearts 

I    gave   them  up  a    prey ; 
And  in  their   foolifh  counfels   then 
I  let  them    go   *    aftray. 

13  O  that  my   people  Me   had  heards 

and  did  my   voice   obey  ; 

That  Ifr'el   had   obedient  been, 

and  walked   in   my   way : 

14  I   mould   within   a  little   time, 

have   pulled  down  their   foes  ; 
And  mould  have  turn'd   my  hand   upon, 
fuch    as    againft   them    rofe. 

15  The    haters    of  the    LORD   had    then 

fubmimon   paid,   tho'    feigu'd  ;  J 
Eut  his  own   people's  happy  time 
mould    ever   have   remain'd. 

16  Yea  with  the   fineft   of  the  wheat, 

have  nourim'd    them  fhould   He ; 
With   honey   from  the  Rock   I  fhould 
have  fatisfied  thee. 

PSALM  LXXXII.    A? [aim  0/Afapk 

1  TN  the  aiTembly  of  the  great,  [j 
JL     our    mighty   GOD   doth   Hand, 
As  judge  among    our  earthly   Gods, 

the  Rulers  of  the  land. 

2  How  long   [fays  He]   then  will  ye   dare 

wrong  judgment  to  award  ? 
The  wicked    perfon  to  accept, 
or   partially   regard  ? 

H  3  Defend 

J  So  the  Hebrew,  Septuagint,  Chalice,  SyriacA,  ancient  Latin9 
Buxtorfy  &c, 

\  i,  e.  Great  in  Power, 


i46         PSALM    LXXXIII. 

3  Defend  the  poor  and  fatherlefs, 

opprefs'd  by  worldly  might  ; 
Aid  fuch   as    fuffer  injuries, 
and    fee   ye   do   them    right. 

4  The   weak   and    poor   deliver    ye, 

and  needy  of  the  land  ; 
And   rid   them  from  the   tyranny 
of  ev'ry  wicked   hand. 

5  They  know  not,   nor   will  underfland, 

in   darknefs  they  walk  on  : 
All   the  foundations   of  the   earth 
out  of  their  courfe    are  gone. 

6  I  callM   you   GODS    for   your  high   place, 

fons   of  the    Higheft   all  ; 

7  But  ye  mall  die  like  common   men, 

like   other  princes  fall. 

8  Arife,  O  GOD,  and  judge  the  earth, 

and   bring    opprefTbrs    down  : 

For   Thou  all  nations  (halt  pofTefs, 

and  rule   them   as  thine   own. 

PSALM    LXXXIII. 
A  Song   or   Pfalm  of  Afaph. 
i  "^[O    longer  hold  thy  peace,   O  GOD, 
JL^I      no   longer   filent  be  ; 
O    God  no   longer   fit  at  reft,  * 
and  our   deftruction  fee  ! 

2  For  lo,  thy  num'rous  enemies 

rife   up   tumultuoufly  ; 
And    thofe   who   hate  Thee  boafl  themfelves, 
and  lift   their   heads   on   high. 

3  Againft  thy  people   they  confpire, 

and   crafty   councils    join  ; 
And    to  deftroy   thine  hidden    ones,  f 
they   lay   their  clofe   delign. 

4  Come  let  us   cut   them    off,   faid  they, 

their   nation   quite   efface, 

k  That    no    remembrance   may  remain, 

of  Ifr'el  or  his   race.  v 

5  Yea 

•j-  Hidden  under  the  Wing  of  thy  Covenant  and  Care, 


PSALM     LXXXIII.  147 

5  Tea  they  together  with   one  heart, 

in   council  have   combin'd  ; 
And  diff 'ring  people    clofe  in   league, 
againffc   Thy    felf    have   join'd. 

6  The  warlike  tents   of  Edom's   race, 

and    of  the   Ifhma'lites, 
The  people    of  the   Hagareens, 
and   of  the  Moabites. 

7  Gebal   and    Ammon  join'd,  and  they 

with   Amalek    confpire  ;  • 
With  them   the  P^iliitines   agree, 
and  tliofe  who  dwell    at  Tyre. 

8  Yea,  mighty  Amur  is  combin'd 

with   them   in   amity  : 
And   they  have  been  an  arm  of  ftrengtk 
to    Lot's    pofterity. 

9  As  once   Thou  didft   to  Midian, 

fb    Thou  wilt   do   to  them  ; 
Or  Jabin's   holt,    and   Sifera 
at  Kifhon's   ancient  ftream. 

10  Who  near   to  Endor   fuddenly, 

fell  down  and   perifhed  ; 
And   all   their   carcafTes    as   dung, 
upon  the  earth   were  fpread. 

1 1  Like  Greb    and  like   Zeeb,  Thou 

wilt  make  their   nobles    fail  : 
As   Zeba  and    Zalmunnah   fell, 
fo   mall    their    princes   all. 

12  For  thus    prefumptuoufly   they   faid, 

come   on,    and    let    us    take 
The   houfes   of  their  GOD  to   us, 
and  our  pofieilion   make. 

13  But  Thou   wilt  make  them,  O  my  GOD, 

as  rolling  things  around  ; 
Or   like   the   chaff  blown   all    about,    ■ 
when  whirlwinds  fweep  the   ground. 

H  2  14  As 


148         PSALM    LXXXIV. 

14  As   raging  fire    the   foreft   burns, 

with   flames    the    mountains    blaze; 

15  So  fha'J   thy  tempeft   them   purfue, 

and   them    thy   itorm    amaze. 

16  Do  Thou,  O  LORD,   their  faces  fill 

with    an    abafmg   fhame, 
That   they  may  happily   be  brought 

to   leek   thy  bleffed  name. 
27  Or  they   fha!l   to   confufion    come, 

and    ever  troubled   be  ; 
Be  put  to  a   perpetual    fhame, 

and  perifh   utterly. 

iB  That   all  may  know  that  Thou  alone, 
whom   we   JEHOVAH   call, 
Art  the  moll   High  in  all  the   earth, 
and  ruleft  over  all. 

PSALM    LXXXIV. 
A   Pfalm  for  the   Sons   of  Korah. 

1  TJOW   amiable,  LORD   of  holts, 
X~X     Thy  tabernacles  are  ! 

\}V herein    the  glories    of  thy  face, 
with  nvcndrous  ponur  appear  !  |Q 

2  My  foul,  within   me    longs,    ye  faints, 

JEHOVAH's  courts    to   fee  ; 
My  heart  and  flefh   cry  out  aloud, 
O  living  God,  for  Thee  ! 

3  The  fparrow  finds   herfelf  an  houfe  ; 

the   fwallow  builds  her   neft, 
Where  flie   may  lay  and  feed  her  young, 

and  ibe    and    they    may  reft  ; 
Ev'n  near  thy  holy  altars,  where 

they  make  their  fafe  abode  : 
And  why  not  I— O  LORD  of  hofc, 

my  King,  my  onlv  God  ! 

4  But 

|j  As  thefe  two  Ivnes  are  taken  from  Pfal.  Ixiii,  2.  where  the 
Pfdlmijlf  in  the  fame  Cafe,  exprefies  thefe  Motives  of  his  Thirfi  : 
they  ar,  plainly  alluded  to,  and  implied  here. 


PSALM    LXXXIV.         149 

4  But  O   how  blefled  then   are  they, 

who  all  their  happy  days 
Dwell  in  thy  houfe,  and  fee  Thee  there  ! 
they   will   Thee    ever   praife. 

5  Yea,  O  how  greatly   blefs'd  are   they, 

whofe  ftrength  and  ftay    Thou   art  ; 
Who   to  thy  houfe   do  trace    the    way, 
with  pleafure   in  their   heart  ! 

6  Who  paffing  Baca's  thirfty  vale, 

they  Thee  f  their  fountain  make ; 
And  from  the   pools  fill'd  with  thy  rain, 
with   cheerfulnefs    they  take. 

7  So   they   go  on   from   ftrength  to  ftrength, 

and  joyfully   draw  near, 
Till  they  before    the    God   of  Gods,  % 
in   Zion  all  appear. 

[2  Part.  ] 

8  O  Thou  JEHOVAH,  GOD  of  hofts, 

my  humble   pray'r  now  hear  ! 
Who   of  thy   Jacob   art   the   God, 
O  give  a  bending  ear  ! 

9  O  GOD,  who    art  our   only   iliield, 

look  gracioufly  on   me, 
And  with   thy    happy  fmiles   the  face 
of  thy  Messiah  \  fee. 

10  For  in  thy   courts   one  fingle    day, 
'tis  better  to   attend, 
Than  'tis  in  any  other  place 
a  thoufand  days  to  fpend. 

H  3  In 

f  The  Hebrew  Particle  fxgnifies  both  it  and  Him.  Lud.  DeDieu, 
Ainfivortb,  Ceir  &  G7o^«*tran(hte  it  Him,  (i.  e.  JEHOVAH) 
and  by  a  ufual  Figure  the  Word  may   fignify  Thee. 

%  Htb.  /El  ^lohim,    i.  e.  The  God  of  Gods. 

§  So  the  Heb.  Septuagint ,  Cbaldee,  ancient  Latin,  and  Arab'ick  , 
i.e.  David  the  Typical  Messiah,  and  Christ  the  Rcat 


150         PSALM    LXXXV. 

In  my  God's   houfe    I  rather  would, 

ev'n  at  the  threfhold  J  fit,  || 
Than  dwell   in   grand  pavillions  with 

the  wicked  and  the  great. 

u  Becaufe  the   LORD  GOD  is   a  fun, 
He  is    a   fhield   alfo  ; 
JEHOVAH  on   his  people  grace, 

and    glory  will    beftow. 
From   them   who    walk   in    uprightnefs, 
no    good  with-hold    will  He. 
12  O  LORD  of  holts,  the   man  is  bleft 
who    puts   his  truft  in   Thee. 

PSALM    LXXXV. 
A  Pjalm  for    the   Sons   of  Korah. 
ORD,  Thou  didft  fignal  favours  fhow, 
J      to    thine  afflicled  land  ; 
Jacob's  captivity  Thou   didft 

bring  back  with  mighty  hand. 
Yea  Thou  thy  people  didft  forgive 

their    great    iniquities  ; 
/\nd  all    their  aggravated -fins 

didft  CGver  from   thine   eyes.      [Selah.) 

3  Thou   all    thine  anger    didft  withdraw, 

which  en   them    heavy   Jay  ; 
V,d   from   the    fiercenefs  of  thy   wrath, 
didft  wholly  turn    away. 

4  O    Gcd    of   our    falvation,    now 

return    us    by    thy    grace  ; 
Ar.d    tow'rds    us    thy   difpleafure    fore, 
O    caufe  Thou    quite    to   ceafe. 

5  Or  fhall  thine  anger  thus    endure, 

againft  us   without  end  ? 
^nd  ev'n   to   generations   all, 
wilt  thou    thy  wrath   extend  ? 

6  O 

J  Hebrm;  Pagtiinc,  Mor.tanui,  Mutyler,  Ji.t:ius  and  Tremelius, 

Eitglijb  Margin.  Ainfivorthy  Bytbner,  and  Dr.  C.  Mather. 
|  Crfalio,  Tigarine  Vt;fion,   Pifcator,  7irinus,  Bytbser. 


PSALM    LXXXV.         151 

6  0    wilt  Thou  not   return    again, 

and  us    revive,   that   we 
Thy   faved   people   greatly  may  . 
rejoice    again  in  Thee  ? 

7  O   great  JEHOVAH  now  to  us, 

thy  tender   mercy   (how  ; 
And   thy   falvation   as    a  gift 
of  grace,  on   us   bellow,  * 

[  2   Part.   ] 

8  I'll  hear  what   God  the  LORD   will  fpeak  : 

fpeak  to   his    people  peace, 
And   to  his  faints  :    but  let  not   them 
return  to  foolifhnefs. 

9  Sure,   his   falvation  now  is   nigh, 

to  them  who  Him  revere  ; 
That  glory  may   adorn   our  land, 
and  happily  dwell  there. 

10  Mercy   and  truth   have   fweet    accefs, 

and  with  great  .pleafure    meet  ; 
And   perfect  righteoufnefs   and   peace, 
with    mutual    kiffes    greet. 

11  Truth   and  uprightnefs   on    the   earth, 

out  of  men's  hearts,  fhall  fpring  ; 
And  righteoufnefs    from    heav'n  look  down, 
defcend    and   bleflings    bring. 

12  Yea  ev'ry   good   thing   will  the   LORD 

give    to  us  bounteoufly  : 
And   then  our  land  fhall  her   increafe, 
yield  with  a  rich  fupply. 

13  Before    Him    righteoufnefs    fhall    go, 

and  all   his  paths  prepare  ; 
And   in    the   way  his  fteps  will  guide, 
and    place  with  happy  care. 

H  4  [  Six- Line 


152  PSALM    LXXXV. 

[Six- Line  Lcng   Metre,  ] 
i   T     ORD,   Thou  didft  favour   this  thy  land  ; 

J J   Thy    Jacob's    fad    captivity, 

.  Thou  didft  return  with  mighty  hand : 

2  Yea.   Thou  foigav'ft    th'  iniquity 

Of  this  thy  flock  in   former  times, 

And  thou  didft  cover  all  their  crimes.  (  Selah.) 

3  Thou  ail   thy  wrath  didft    take  away  : 
From  thy  hot  wrath  which  fiam'd  abroad, 
Thou    tumedft  in  that    happy  day. 

4  Of  our  faivation,    O  Thou   God  ! 

Convert   us  now  by  the   fame   grace, 
And  make  thy  wrath  towards  us  ceafe. 

5  Shall  thy  wrath  on  us  always  lie  ? 
Wilt  thou  thy  burning  wrath  extend, 
From    generation   conftantly, 

To   generation  without  end  ? 

6  Vvik  thou  not  us    revive,  that  we 
Thy  people  may  rejoice  in  Thee  ? 

7  LORD,   let  thy  naercy   now    appear; 
And  fave  us   in  thy   boundlefs  grace. 

8  What  Gcdthe  LORD  will  fpeak,  I'll  hear: 
For  to  his  people  He'll  fpeak  peace, 

A:id  to  his  faints  :  but  they  muft  then 
Ne'er  turn. to  fooiifhnefs  again. 

9  His  favlng  work   is  nigh  at  hand, 
Surely,  to  all  that  Him  revere  ; 
That  glory  may    dwell  in  our  land. 

10  Mercy  and  truth  meet   fweetly  here, 

Harmonious  peace  and  righteoufnefs, 
Embracing,   one  another  kifs. 

11  Truth  fprings  out  of   the  earth  below, 
And  down  from  heav'n  looks  righteoufnefs  j 
The  LORD  will  ev'ry  good   bellow  ; 

Our  land  fhall  yield  her  great  increafe. 
juftice  fhall  go  before  his  face, 
And  in  the  wav  his  fteps  will  place. 

PSALM 


PSALM     LXXXVL         15? 

P  S  A  L  M    LXXXVL 

A  Prayer  of  David. 

1  S^\    LOR.D,   bow   down   thine   ear, 
\J     and   hearken    to  my  cry  ; 
For   poor   and  wholly   deiHtitte 

of  other   help   am    I. 

2  Preferve  my  foul,  for  I 

devoted   am   to  Thee  ; 
My  God,  thy  fervant   fave,  who  makes 
his  trufl   in   Thee   his  plea. 

3  O   Lord  be  merciful 

to  me,  I    earneft    pray  ; 
Becaufe  I   cry   to   Thee    alone, 
importunate    all    day. 

4  Rejoice  thy   fervant's    foul, 

for   I  to  Thee,   O  Lord, 
Lift  up  my   troubled    foul,   in    hope 
that  Thou   wilt   help    afford. 

5  For  Thou,    O    Lord)   art    good ; 

to   pardon    fully   free  ; 
Yea  in    thy  mercy   rich   art  Thou, 
to  all  who  call    on   Thee. 

6  JEHOVAH    to    my  cry 

0  give    a   gracious   ear  ; 
And  to   my   fupplications   voice 

attend,   and   kindly    hear. 

7  In   days  of  my   diilrefs 

1  will  to  Thee   complain  ; 
Becaufe  I   furely   know  that   Thou, 

wilt   anfwer  me   again. 

8  Among  the   Gods,  O   Lord, 

not  one  is   like   to  Thee  ; 
Nor  any  works,  that  to  thy  works 
may  ones  compared  be. 

H  5  [2  fiw/.  j 


154         PSALM    LXXXVI. 

[   2   Part,  ] 
9  The   nations   all,    O  Lord, 

whom  thy   great   pow'r  did  frame, 
Shall   come    before  and   bow  to  thee, 
and  glorify   thy   name. 

10  For   Thou    art   high   and   great ; 

the   things   that  Thou    haft  done, 
Are  truly   marvellous,  and  mow 
that   Thou   art  GOD  alone. 

1 1  Teach   mc    thy  way   of  truth, 

and   I    will  walk  the  fame  ; 
And  LORD,  to  Thee  unite   my  heart, 
that    I    may    fear    thy    name. 

12  O   Lord  my   God,   Thee    praife, 

with   all   my  heart  will  I  ; 
Yea  conftantly   and  evermore, 
thy  name   will  glorify. 

7.?  Becaufe  thy  mercy  is 

exceeding  great  to   me  ; 
And  from  the    grave  and   loweft  hell, 
Thou   haft   my   foul   fet   free. 
[   3   Part.  ] 
34  O  GOD,   the  violent 

and    proud    in    troops    arife 
Againft    me,   and   they   feek  my  foul, 
nor  have  Thee    in   their   eyes. 

15  But    Lord,  Thou   art   a    God, 

companionate  and   kind  ; 
Long-fufTring   Thou,    and    in    thy    truth, 
and    mercy    unconhVd. 

16  O   turn  to  me  thy  hce. 

to    me   be    mercy   mown, 
Thy  ftrength,  O,   to  thy  fervant  give, 
and   fave  thine  handmaid's  fon. 

17  Shew  'me  a  fign    for   good, 

and  let   my   haters   fee 
And  be  afham'd,  becaufe  Thou  LORD, 
doft  help  and  comfort  me.  PSALM 


F  S  A  L  M    LXXXVII.        155 

PSALM    LXXXVII. 

A  P faint  or  Song  for  the  Sons  of  Korah, 

1  npHE  LORD  his  facred  houfe   doth  on 

J_       the  holy  mountains  found  ; 

2  The  gates  of  Zion   loves  more  than 

all   Jacob's   dwellings  round. 

3  Exceeding  great  and   glorious   things, 

are   fpoken   of  abroad, 
Concerning  thee,  O  thou  the  feat, 
the   city  of  our  GOD.      (Selah.) 

4  In  thofe   who  know  me   I  will  name 

Tyre,  Rahab,  f   Babylon, 
In  Ethiopia,    Palefline, 

were  born  fome   of  renown  ; 

5  But  this    of  Zion   mail  be  faid, 

there   many   fuch   are  born  ; 
And  the   moft  High   himfelf  will  her 
eftablifh    and    adorn. 

6  Yea   when  the  LORD  enrolls   their  names 

who    His    own   people  are, 
To   Zion*s  honour    He   will  fay, 

'This  man  was  born   in  her.'    (Selah.) 

7  Both  thofe   who  fing  and  thofe   who  play 

on   mulick  there  mall  be  : 
Yea    all   my   fprings    of  life   and  grace 
and   comfort   are   in  Thee.  J 

PSALM    LXXXVII. 
[   Six-Line   Long   Metre.  ] 

1  T  TIS   facred    dwelling   he   doth    found 
X  A   Upon  the  holy  mountain  there. 

2  To  all   the    tents    of  Jacob    round 
The   LORD  doth  Zion's  gates  prefer, 

3  Moft    glorious    things  are  fpoke  abroad 
Of  thee,  O  city  of  cur  GOD.       (Selah.) 

4  111 

i  i.e.  Egypt.  CbaU.  Munft.  Pag,  Jun.  &  Trem.  Mol.Alrf.Mui,- 
%  he.  in  Thee  Jehovah,  as   the  original  Source  5  and — ia 
Thee  Ziw9  as  the  flowing  Cifiern. 


P  S  A  L  M    LXXXVUi. 

I'll    '  io4   Kahab  name, 

Who  know  me,  Ethiop.t, 
PhiiiiHa,  Tyre  :  were  !>orn  in    th . 


•?.    juftiy    famous    in  'their    day. 


«j       But   Zion    fam'd  for  bringing'  forth 
Many    renowned   for   their    worth. 
bigkefl  will  increafe   her   fame, 
abliih    her  and  more   adorn. 
1  as  the  LORD  writes  ey'ry  name, 
Heft]  note — There  such  a  one    was   born. 
VTuficiaju,   fipgers  there    abound, 
And    a!i  my  fprings  in   Thee  are    found. 
P  S  A  L  M    LXXXVIII. 
.1  Pfalm  or  Song  for  the  Sens  ©/"Koran  :  Mafchil 
of  Heman  the  Ezrahite. 

LORD    God,    my  .iaviour,   day    and    night 
before  Thee,   loudly    cry'd  have  I : 
z  O   let    my   pray'r   before   Thee   come, 
And  bend   thine  ear  now   to    my   cry. 

3  Becanfe  my    foul's  with    trouble  fill'd,  * 
My    lire    approaches    to  the    grave : 

4  Counted   with   them   who    to    the  pit, 
Are    haitning,   and    no   ftrength    1    have. 

5  Yea   *s  one   free    among   the   dead, 
L  ike   to    the  (lain   in    graves    I    lie  ; 
Whom  by  thy   hand  Thou   haft   cut    off, 
And    haft  no    more  in   memory. 

6  Thou  lay'ft  me  in  the  J  owed  pit, 
In    darknefs    as   in  deeper!  caves  ;  * 

7  Thy  wrath   lies   hard    on   me,  and  Tfkvu.  , 
AfRiclcft   me   with    all    thy  waves. 

8  My  friends  thou  haft  put   far    from  me, 
And  to   them  made  me  Ioathfcme  grow  ;• 
And  Tm    in   prifon  fhut    fo  fa#, 

That    forth   from    thence   I  cannot    go. 

9  Thro'   my  afHiction  great  and  long, 
Mine    e\e   with  mourning  pines   away  : 
JEHOVAH,  loud   I   call  on   Thee, 
And   ftretch  my  hands  fj  Thee  all  day. 

[  z  Part.  J 


PSALM    LXXXIX.  157 

[  2  Part.  ] 

10  Shew  wonders    to   the  dead   wilt  Thou  ? 
Shall   the   dead   mfe  and  Thee   confefs  I 

1 1  Or  doth   the   grave   thy  kindnefs  mow, 
Deftruction   tell  *  thy  faithfulnefs  ? 

12  In  darknefs.are  thy  wonders  known  ? 
Or   are  thy  acts   of  righteoufnefs, 
Ilemember'd   or  acknowleg'd  in 

The  land  of  deep  forgetfulnefs. 

33  But   LORD   to    Thee   aloud  I  cry, 
In  early  morning  to  Thee  pray  ; 

14  Why    LORD  doll  caft  ray   foul  from  Thee  r 
Why   from  me   hide  thy  ~  face    away  ? 

15  I'm  poor,   afflicted,  and    to  die 

Am    ready  from  my  youthful   years  1 
Diftracted    and    confus'd  am   I, 
While  I  endure  thy     horrid   fears. 

16  Thy  -fiery   wrath    goes    over   me; 
Thy    terrors  greatly   me  difmay  ; 

17  As  mighty  floods  encompafs  me, 
And   rife   all   round   me  ev'ry   day. 

28  My  lovers  and  my  choiceft   friends, 
Thou  haft  from  me  removed  far  : 
And  into  darknefs   put  away 
Thofe  who  my  dear  acquaintance  were* 

PSALM    LXXXfX. 
Mafchil   of  Ethan  the  Ezrahite. 
I   npHE  mercies  of  JEHOVAH   fing 
JL        fdr  evermore  will  I  : 
I'll  with  my  mouth  thy  truth  make  known 
to    all   pofterity. 
1  For  I  have  faid,   Thy  mercy  fhall 
for  ever  built   remain  ; 
Thou   in   the   heav'ns    thy   faithfulnefs 
'       wilt  ftedfaflly  maintain. 

^  For  with  the  man  whom  I  did  chufe 
a  covenant   I   made, 
Aad   to  my   fervant   David  fwear, 
;  to  what  I  pronged  5  4  That 


x58        PSALM    LXXX1X. 

4  That  I   thy   feed  eftablifli   will 

for   ever   to   endure, 
And   will  to   generations   alJ, 
build  up   thy  throne   moft   fure. 

5  And   fo  the  heav'ns  thy   wonders,   LORD, 

fhall   with  thy  praifes  ling  j 
While   thine   affembled  faint?   on   earth, 
thy   faithfulnefs   fhall    fing. 

6  For   with   JEHOVAH,   who  is    he, 

in    heav'n  we    can  compare  ? 
Who  like  the  LORD  among  the  fons 

of  earthly  Gods  f  is  there  .?    I      f  JElim. 

E  2   Part.  ] 

7  God  greatly  in  the   church  of  faints, 

is  to   be  had  in  fear, 
And  to  be  reverenc'd   of  all 
that  round  about    Him   are. 

8  O  LORD  of  hofts,  O  mighty'*  J  AH,* 

who  like   Thee    can    there  be  ? 
Thy  faithfulnefs   on  ev'ry   fide, 
does  round  encompafs  Thee. 

9  Over   the   raging   of  the   fea, 

Thou  doft  dominion  bear  : 
And  when   the  waves   thereof  arife, 
by   Thee  they   ftilled  are. 

10  Rahab   thou   hafl   in   pieces  broke, 

and   like   one   {lain    (he  lies  ; 
And  with  thy  mighty  arm  haft  Thou 
difpers'd   thine   enemies. 

11  The    heav'ns    are  thine,  the    earth  is    thine, 

which    Thou   alone   hail  made  ; 
The   world  with   all    it's    fulnefs  ;  Thou 
haft   it's   foundations    laid. 

12  The   north  and   fouth    fides  of  the   world, 

Thou   didft  extend  and   frame. 
Tabor  and   Hermon,  mountains  high, 
fhall  triumph  ia  thy  name. 

[  3  P«rt*  ] 


PSALM    LXXXIX.         15? 

I  3  ?««■  ] 
j  3  Thou  haft  an   arm  of  mighty  powV, 
thy  hand   in  ftrength   is   great, 
And  that  fupreme   right  hand   of  thine 
aloft   on   high  is   fet. 

14  Juftice  and  judgment  on   thy   throne, 

have   their   fure   dwelling   place  : 
Mercy   and   truth  join'd   hand  in  hand, 
fhall   go   before   thy   face. 

15  O   blefTed  are  the  people  who 

the  joyful   found  do   know  ; 
LORD,  in  Thy  countenance's  light, 
they  up  and  down  fhall   go. 

16  They  in  thy  name  fhall,  all   the  day, 

rejoice   exceedingly  ; 
And  in   thy  righteoufnefs    fhall    they 
be   lifted   up   on   high. 

17  Becaufe  the  glory  of  their   ftrength 

they  yield   alone   to  Thee  ; 
And  in   thy  favour  fhall   our   horn 
of  pow'r   exalted  be. 

18  Becaufe  JEHOVAH  is  our  fnield, 

who  fafety   gives    alone ; 
And  He  who  is   our  fov'reign  King 
is  Ifr'ePs   Holy   One. 
[  4  Part.  ] 

19  In   vifion  then   Thou  to  thy   faints, 

didft  fpeak,  ■  I'll  help  impofe, 

*  On  One  that's  mighty,  whom  I  rais'd, 

'  and   from   the  people   chofe. 

20  c  Among   them  David  I  have  found, 

«  a  fervant   true   to  Me  ; 

•  And   with   my  holy  oil  my  King 

*  anointed  him   to   be. 

21  {  With  whom  my  hand   fhall   firmly   be, 

*  mine  arm  fhall  make  him  ftrong  : 

22  '  On  him  the  foe   fhall  not   exact, 

;  dot  fon  of  mifchief  wrong.  23 'And 


.i6o         PSALM    LXXX1X. 

23  *  And  I'll  beat   down   before  his  face 

'  all   his   malicious   foes  ; 
'  And  will  them  greatly  plague  who  (hail 

*  in  hatred  him    oppofe. 

24  c  But   lo,  my   mercy   and   my  truth 

4  with    him   (hall   be    the  fame  ; 

*  His    horn   of  pow'r   mall    be    on    high 

1  exalted   in   my  name. 

25  *  His   hand   of  pow'r  mail    reach  afar  ; 

1  I'll  fet  it   on   the   fea  : 
'  And  on    the  rivers  his  right  hand, 

*  extended   wide  (hall   be. 

26  *  To  me,   my  father,  God,  and  rock 

'    of  fafety,    he  lhall   cry  ; 

27  *  I'll   place   him   my   firft  born,  above 

all  kings   in   dignity. 
38  '  My   mercy   I   will  keep   for   him, 

*  to   times    which  ever  laft  ; 

*  Alfo    my    covenant   with   him, 

•mall   be   eftabliftYd  faft. 

29  *  His  offspring   alfo    will  I  make, 

'  ev'n   to    remain    always ; 

*  And   I  eftablifh   will    his  throne, 

*  as    heav'ns   eternal  days. 

30  '  But  if  his   fons   forfake    my    law, 

'  and   from  my  judgments  fwerve  ; 

31  *  If  they  my  ftatutes    violate, 

*  my  precepts   not   obferve  ; 

32  *  Their  bold  tranfgreilions   with  the  rod, 

*  then   vifit   fore  will  I, 

'  And  ,1  with   fcourges  viOt  will 
4  their  crofs   iniquity. 

33  '  My  loving  kindnefs   yet  from   him 

*  I'll    take    not    utterly, 

*  Nor   fuffer   will  in  any  wife 
'  my  faithfulnefs  to  tic. 

34  *  The 


PSALM    LXXXIX.  161 

34  *  The   covenant   I   made   with  him 

■  by  me   mall   not  be   broke  ; 

'  And   what   my  lips   have   once  pronounc'd, 

*  I   never  will   revoke. 

35  «  Can  I  to  David  lie,  when   by 

'  my  holinefs  I've   fworn. 

36  ■  Before  me   laft  his  feed   and   throne, 

•  perpetual  as   the   fun  : 

37  '  And  as  the  moon,  by  my  decree, 

■  on   high  eftablifh'd  faft, 

*  In   heav'n  a  faithful    witnefs  fet, 

'  for   evermore   to   laft.'      ( Selah.) 
[   5  P^t.  ] 

38  But  now  Thou  feem'ft  to  caft  me  off, 

and  to   abandon   me  ; 
And   v/ith   thine  own  anointed   one, 
'  exceeding   wroth  to   be. 

39  Thou  feem'ft   to   null   thy  covenant, 

with    him    thy   fervant   made  : 
His   diadem  Thou  haft  profan'd, 
and  in  the  duft   haft  laid. 

40  His    hedges    all   haft  broken   dowa, 

his    fortreffes  laid   wafte  ; 

41  He's  fpoil'd  by   every  pafienger, 

by   neighbours   round   difgrac'd. 

42  His   foes  right  hand  Thou  haft  advanc'd, 

and   made  them   all  be  glad  ; 

43  Turn'd  his  fword's  edge,  and  him  to  ftand, 

in  battle   haft  not  made. 

44  His  glory  Thou  haft  made  to  ceafe, 

his  throne  caft  to  the  ground ; 

45  His  youthful  days   made   fhort   to   be, 

with  (name  doft  him  confound. 
[   6  Part.   ] 

46  How  long   LORD  wilt  Thou  hide  thy  felf  ^ 

fhall  it   for  ever  be  ? 
How  long   like    as   a  burning  fire 

•  mail   we  thine  anger  fee  ?  47  0- 


162  PSALM    XC. 

47  O  call    to  mind  how   fhort  a    time, 

I  mall    on    earth    remain. 
Wherefore  haft  Thou  employ'd  thy   pow'r, 
to    make    all    men   in   vain  ? 

48  What  man  is  he  that   lives    on    earth, 

who   death  fhall   never  fee  ? 
Or   from    the  grave's    prevailing   pow'r, 
what  man   his  foul  can  free  ? 

49  Thy   former  loving  kindnefTes, 

Lord,  where  do  they  appear, 
Which    in  thy  truth    and   faithfulnefs 
to  David  thou  didft  fwear  ?  f 

50  Remember,  Lord,  with  what  reproach, 

thy  fervants   treated    are  ; 
How  all   the   mighty  *  people's  feoffs, 
I  in    my   bofom  bear. 

51  The  feoffs  wherewith  thy  foes,  O  LORD, 

reproach  have  laid  upon 
The  fteps  of  thy  Messiah  J  dear, 
thine  own  anointed  one. 

52  But  blefs'd  forever  be    the  LORD, 

who   doth  for   ever  reign  ; 
And  let   the   world  with  one  accord 
refound,   Amen,    Amen. 

PSALM    XC. 
A  Prayer  cf  Mofes,    the    Man    of  GOB. 

1  T  ORD,  Thou  haft  been  our  dwelling  place, 
"*~/     our   refuge  and  defence, 

In   all    the   generations   paft, 
and   ftill   our  confidence. 

2  Before    the    mountains    Thou    didft  form, 

or   earth,  and   world    abroad, 
Thou   ev'n  from  everlalting  art 
to   everlafting,   God. 

3  Thou 

■\  So  the  Heb.  Sept.  Cba/dee,  Syriack,  aneitnt  Latin,  uAArahick, 
J  So  the  Hebrew,  and  all  the  ancient  Ferfions, 


PSALM    XC.  163 

3  Thou   to  definition   doft   reduce 

frail,    raiferable    men  ; 
And  to  all  Adam's  *  fons  Thou  fay' it, 
return  ye  back  again. 

4  For  ev'n   a  thoufand  years  appear 

no  more  before    thy    fight, 
Than    yefterday    that   now   is    pafl, 
or   than    a  watch    by  night. 

5  Thou  doft   them   bear  away   as  with 

a  flood  that  overflows  : 
Like  fleep   tljey  are ;    and  as    the    grafs, 
which    in  the  morning  grows  ; 

6  Which  in  the  morning  flouriihes, 

but  foon  its   beauty  flies  ; 
When  evening  comes   'tis  all    cut  down, 
and   withers    up    and   dies. 

7  For  by   thy   fiery   anger  we 

confurned   are  away  ; 
And  troubled  by  thy   burning  wrath, 

we    haftily    decay. 
3  Thou  doft  our   open    trefpafTeSj 

before  thy  prefence  place  ; 
x4.nd  ev'n    our   fecret  fins    before 

the  brightnefs  of  thy  face. 

9  For    in    thine   anger   all   our  days 
away  are   quickly  rolPd  ; 
And  all   our  years   we   wafte  away, 
like   a  fhort   tale   foon   told. 
10  For  threefcore   years  and  ten  the  days 
of  our  fhort    life  may  be  : 
Or  if  by   reafon  of  more  ftrength, 
we  fourfcore  years   may   fee  ; 

Yet  is   this    lengthning    out  *    but  Jin, 

toit,  grief  and    vanity  ;  (| 
And  then  'tis  fpeedily  cut  off, 

and  fwift  away  we   fly. 

11  O 

R  The  Hebrew  Word  fceroa  to  comprehend  all  thefe  Ideas, 


■x64  fSALM    XCI. 

1 1  O  who  is  he  that   fully  knows 

what  pow'r   thine   anger   hath  ? 
Or    who  can    fully    comprehend 
the  terror  of  thy   wi  ath  ?  f 

12  O  teach  Theu  us   efTeftually 

to  number  fo   our  days, 
As   that   our   hearts  we   may  apply, 
to  walk   in    wifdom's  ways. 

13  JEHOVAH,    turn    thy   felf  again: 

how  long   yet    fliall    it    be  ? 
E're  thou   repent  J  and    comfort  %   them 
who   fervants  are  to   Thee  ? 

14  O   fatisfy  us  early  with 

thy   free    benignity  ; 
That  fo   thro'   all    our   days   we    may 
joy  and   make   melody. 

15  According  to   the   days    wherein, 

affliction   we    have   had  • 
And  years   of  eviT  we  have  feen, 
now    do   thou   make    us    glad. 

16  O    to   thy   fervants,  let   thy   work, 

thy   glorious    work   appear  : 
And   fnow   thy  glory   forth    to    thofe 
who   their   deaf  children    are. 

17  The   kindnefs  ||   of  the    LORD    our  God, 

let   on    us  ever  mine  ; 
Confirm   our   handy  work  for  us, 
cflablifh   it   by  thine. 

PSALM   XCI. 

1   T  YE    that   does  in   the   fecret   place 
JTX      or*  t^3e  m°ft  High    refide, 
He   under   the   Almighty's    made, 
fecurely  fhall   abide. 

2  Of 

f  So  the  Syriack.         %  Both  are  implied  in  the  Hebrew. 
(|  So  the  Syriack  ;  and  all  the  Hebrew  Lexicons,  with  the  Chaldte 
and  ancient  Latin ,  render  it— tie  Swcctr.efs  or Pleofar.tnefi% 


PSALM    XCL  j  $5 

2  Of  this   JEHOVAH,  I  will   fry, 

He    is    my   refuge    high, 
My  ftrong  munition    and   my  God, 
on    Him   I    will    rely. 

3  Becaufe  *  He  from  the   fowler's  fnare, 

will    fafely  keep  thee  free  ; 
And   from   the   mortal  peftilence, 
will  He  deliver  thee. 

4  He   with    his    feathers  will    thee  hide; 

his   wings    thy  tru^    fhall   be  ; 
His  truth  fhall  be  a   certain  fhield 
and   buckler  fafe   to  thee. 

5  Thou  (halt   not  be  with   fear   difmay*4> 

for    terrors  in    the   night  ; 
Nor  for   the  arrow   that  by   day, 
(hoots    with    the  fwifteft    flight. 

6  Nor   for   th'  .infection   of  the  plague, 

that    does   in  darknefs   ftray  : 
Nor  for  the  flaughter  ||  raging   on, 
and   wafting   at  noon-day. 

7  Tho'  at  thy   fide  a  thoufand  fall, 

and   at  thy   right  hand  lie 
Ten  thoufand   dead  ;    yet  none  of.  them 
to   touch   thee   fhall    come   nigh. 
S  Only,   this  awful    thrng  thine  eyes 
fhall  with  attention  fee,    : 
How  they  who   now   live  wickedly, 
fhall  then  rewarded   be. 
[   2  Part.  ] 
9  Becaufe   thou  haft  JEHOVAH  made 
thy   dwelling  place   to  be  ; 
Ev'n   the  molt  High,    who  always  was 
a  refuge  fafe  to  me  ; 
io  Therefore  no    final   injury 
fhall   ever  thee  befaii, 
Nor  any  kind  of  penal    plague 

come   near  thy  dwelling   fhall.  ji  For 

||  Sc  Ityontanus,  Gejer,  Gretius,  and  the  Lexicons:  i,  e,  ilaugh- 

tering  Armies, 


166  PSALM    XCII. 

li  For  He'll  his   angels    ftrictly   charge, 
thee   ever   to  attend, 
That   fafely   thee  in  all  thy  ways 
they   ever  fhould   defend. 

12  They  with   their   hands  (hall  bear  thee   lip, 

left,     if  thou    be    alone, 
At   unawares  thou  dam  thy  foot, 
againft  a   hurtful  Hone. 

13  The  lion  and  the  adder   fierce 

thou  malt  fecurely  tread  ; 
Young  lions  tread  beneath   thy   feet, 
and  crufh  the  dragon's  head. 

14  «  Becaufe  he  fets   his  love  on  Me, 

1  deliver    him  will  I  : 
'  Becaufe  he  knows  and  owns  my  name, 
1  I  will  exalt  him  high. 

15  *  He  fhall  moft  freely  call  on  Me, 

*  and  I   will  anfwer  him  : 

*  I   will  with  him  in  trouble  be  ; 

*  him  honour  and  redeem. 

16  ■  As  beft  fhall  be,  with  length  of  days, 

*  I  will   him  fatisfy  : 

*  And  my  falvation  I  will    make 

1  him  fee  with   joyful  eye.* 

PSALM    XCII. 

A  Pfahn  or  Song  for  the  Sabbath-Day. 

x  >T"^0  Thee,  JEHOVAH,  thanks  to  give, 
JL        it  is  a  comely    thing  ; 
And  to   thy  name,  O  Thou   mofl  High, 
loud  hymns  of  praife   to  fing. 
A  Thy  loving  kindnefs  forth  to  lhow, 
in  early   morning   light, 
And  to  declare  thy    faithfulnefs 
with  pleafure  ev'ry  night. 

3  Upon 


PSALM    XCII.  167 

3  Upon   the   ten    ftring'd   inflrument, 

and  pleafant  pfaltery  ■ 
Upon   the  harp   with    folemn   found,  J 
and   high  rais'd  melody.  J 

4  For  Thou  JEHOVAH   thro'  thy  work 

haft   made  me  to   rejoice  ; 
And    in    thy    handy    work    will    I 
triumph    with   joyful  voice. 

5  How  wondrous  are    thy  works,  O  LORD  ! 

how  deep  are  thy  decrees  ! 

6  The  flupid  underftand  not  this, 

nor   foolim  firmer   lees ; 

7  When  finners  fpring   as    grafs,  and   thofe 

who  work  iniquity 
Do  flourifh  ;  'tis  that   they   may  be 
deftroy'd   eternally. 

8  But  Thou,  O   LORD,  as  fov'reign  Judge, 

for  ever  malt  remain; 
And  Thou,  moil   high,  ev'n   over    all 
for  evermore   (halt  reign. 

9  For  lo  thy  many  foes,    O  LORD3 

Thy  foes   fhall  quite  decay ; 
And  all   who  work  iniquity 
fhall  be  difpers'd  away. 

10  My   horn  of  pow'r,  as  tini  corns, 

Thou   wilt   exalt   on  high  ; 
And   with  frefh  oil,  from   time  to  timej, 
anointed  be   fhall   I. 

1 1  The  downfall   of  my   fpiteful  foes, 

mine   eyes   fhall  fee  :    mine    ear 
Of  ill  men   who   againft  me    rife, 
the  fall  fhall  alfo  hear. 

[  2  Part.  2 

J  ftebr,  Higaion  :  which  is  thought  by  feme  to  fignify  not  only 
folemn  Meditation,  but  alfo  a  folemn  bound  agreable  thereto  % 
the  Cbaldee  renders  it  ivitb  Exultation  ;  and  I  ufe  both  the. 
Senfes,  agreable  to  what  fucceeds, 


168  PSALM    XCIIL 

[   2   Part.   ] 
12  But  like  the  palm-tree  flourishing, 
ihall  be  the  righteous   one  ; 
He   fhall  be   like    the   cedar  tree, 
that   grows    on    Lebanon. 
*3  They   that  within  JEHOVAH's  houfe 
happily  planted    are, 
Within  the   court-yards  of  our  God, 
fhall  greatly   flourifh  there. 

14  Their  fruit  they  fhall   when   they   are  grey, 
continue  forth  to  bring  ; 
They  fhall  in  fatnefs  grow,   and   they 
fhall  ftill  be  flourifhing. 
J15   To   fhow  JEHOVAH   upright  is; 
He  is   a  rock  to  me  ; 
And  that   He  from  unrighteoufnefs 
is   altogether  free. 

PSALM    XCIII. 

%    TEHOVAH  reigns  :    and  cloathed   is 
J      with  lofty  majefty  : 
JEHOVAH  cloaths  and  girds  Himfelf 
with   mighty   pow'r   on   high  : 

2  The  world  is  fo  eftablifhed, 

none  move  it  can  but    He  : 
Thy  throne  is  fix'd  of  old ;    and  Thou 
art  from  eternity. 

3  The  floods,   O   LORD,   have  lifted  up, 

the  floods  lift  up    their    voice, 
The  floods  have  lifted    up  their   waves, 
and  make   a  darning  noife. 

4  The    LORD  on    high  is   mightier   far 

than   many   waters  noife  : 
Yea  mightier   than  the  raging  feas, 
when   all    their   billows  rife. 

5  Thy   teftimonies,  LORD,   are  fure  : 

and  holinefs    always 
Becomes  thy  hcufe,  and  all  who  there 
aiTemble  for   thy  -praifp. 

P  S  J  L  M 


PSALM    XC1V.  i69 

PSALM    XCIV. 

i  T     ORD  God,   to  whom  alone   pertains 
I    J     the  recompence  of  wrongs, 
Q   mighty  God,  mine   clearly  forth, 
to   whom   revenge  belongs. 

2  Thou  judge   of  all  the   earth   wilt   rife, 

the   proud  their  wages   pay. 

3  How  long,  O   LORD,  mail  wicked  men9 

how  long  triumph  fhali  they  ? 

4  How  long   mall   they  break  out,   and  fay 

things   very   hard  to   bear  ? 
How   long  mail  all  thofe   boaft  themfelves, 
who  wicked  workers  are  ? 

5  LORD,   they   thy  people  grind  to  diiftD 

thine  heritage   opprefs  ; 

6  The  widow  and   the  ftranger   flay, 

and    kill  the  fatherlefs. 

7  And  yet  they  infolently  fay, 

JAH  *  this  fhall  never   fee, 
Nor  by  the  God   of  Jacob  -fhall,, 
thefe  things    regarded  be. 

8  But  O   ye  ftupid  people,  will 

ye   never  learn   to    know  ? 
Ye  foolifh  in   your  hearts   and   ways, 
wife  will  ye  never  grow  r 

9  He  planted   evVy  hearing   ear  ; 

and  hear  then  (hall  not   He  ? 
Who  formed  ev'ry  feeing  eye, 
mail  He  not   clearly  fee  £ 

10  He   who  the   nations   doth   chaflize, 

fhall  He  not  chaften  you  ? 
He  teaches  knowledge   to  all   men ; 
and   fhall  not  He  them  know  ? 

11  JEHOVAH   always  clearly  fees 

what   thoughts  men  entertain  ; 
He  judges   and   he   tries  them  all, 
and  knows  they  are  all  vain. 

I  [  2  Part.  2 


lyo  PSALM    XCIV. 

[   2   Part.   ] 

12  0  JAH,  *  how  blefs'd  is  he  whom  Thou 

doft  fa-herly  chaflife  ; 
And  out  of  thy  moft  perfect  law 
"    Thou  teacheft    to  be   wife  r 

13  That  Thou    may'ft  give   him    quietnefs, 

till    evil    times    are    paft  ; 
Until  the  pit   be   digg'd,   wherein 
the  wicked   fhall   be  caft. 

14  For  fure  the  LORD  will  not  caft  off 

His  people  utterly; 
Nor    his    inheritance   forfake 
to   perpetuity. 

15  But  judgment  fhall   to   righteoufnefs 

clearly    return   and    reign ; 
And  all    who  are  of  upright   heart, 
fhall  follow  in   her   train. 

56  Againft  the    evil    doers,   who 
will  up  for    me   arife  ? 
Who  Hand  for  me  againft  all  thofe 
that  work  iniquities  ? 

C   3  P"t*  1 

17  Unlefs  the   LORD    had  been   my  help, 

none  other  could  me  fave  ; 
My   foul   had    quickly    dwelt    within 
the   filence   of  the  grave. 

18  And  when  I   fuid,   my   moving  foot 

is  ready  juft   to    flide  ; 
Thy  mercies   LORD,  then  held   me    up, 
and  made    me   firm   abide. 

19  Amidft   the   multitude  of  thoughts, 

tumujtuous  in   my  mind  ; 
Still    from  thy  confolatipns  fweet 
my  foul  delight   doth  find. 

20  What  fhall   the  throne    of  wickednefs 

have   fellowfhip  with  Thee ; 
Which  frameth    mifchief  by    a  law, 

and  afts  it  by  decree?  2I  j. 


PSALM    XCV.  171 

21  They  run  in   crouds    againfl  the  fouls 

of  men   both  juffc  and  good  ; 
And  they   condemn  to  punimment, 
thofe  of  moil    harmlefs    blood. 

22  But  yet   the   LORD  has  always  been 

a  refuge   high    *    to    me  ; 
And    of  my    confidence  the    *    rock, 
my  God  (hall  always  be. 

23  The  LORD  our   God   their   mifchief  will 

on   their  own    heads  repay  ; 
In  their  own   malice  cut  them  down, 
yea   will  them  furely  flay. 

PSALM    XCV. 

1   /^\   Come,  and  let  us  to  the  LORD, 
K^r     lift  up  a  joyful  voice  ; 
And  to  our  rock   of  fafety  mout, 
and  make  triumphant  noife. 
■2  Before  Him  let   us  early  *  come 
with  thankfulnefs   and   praife  ; 
And  with  the  joyful   noife  of  hymn*, 
aloud  oar  voices  raife.f 

3  Becaufe  this  God   JEHOVAH  is 

exceeding    great    and   high  ; 
And  a    great  King  above   all   Gods, 
in   power    and    majefty. 

4  All  the  deep    caverns    in  the   earth, 

are  in  his    mighty   hand  ; 
The   mountains   high    in   all  their  flreng.h, 
are  his,  and  by  Him  ftand. 

5  To   Him  the  fpacious  fea  belongs, 

becaufe   He   made   the  fame  ; 

And  all  the    land    abroad  is  his, 

for   it  his   hand   did   frame. 

I  2  [2  Part^ 

-}-  hbilemus-~tt  in  Mont  anus. 


if*  PSALM    XCVL 

[   2  Part.   ] 

6  O  come,  and  let  us  all  adore, 

bow  down,  and  on    Him  call; 
Come,  let  us  kneel  before  the  LORD, 
the  maker  of  us  all. 

7  Becaufe  He  is  our  God,  and  we 

his  pafture's   people  are  ; 
And  of  his  hand   the   fheep,   if  ye 
to   day  his   voice   will  hear; 

8  (  O  let  not,  as  at   Meribah, 

'  hardnefs  your  hearts   poflefs, 
'  As  in  the   day   of  MalTah  they 
'  did  in  the  wildernefs. 

9  '  Where  your   prefumptuous   anceflors 

'  too  boldly   tempted    Me  ; 
'  Where  they  me  prov'd,  and  where  my  works 
'  their  wondring  eyes  did  fee. 

10  c  Forty  years  long  I  grieved  was 

*  with   that   rebellious  race  ; 

c  And   faid,    this  people  err  in  heart, 
c  and  will  not  know  my  ways. 
jrx  '  So  that  to  them  I  fware   in    wrath, 
'  then    kindling    in    my   breaft ; 

e  That   they  mould  never  enter   in 

*  my  happy  place   of  reft.' 

PSALM    XCVI. 

1  y^v    Sing  ye   loudly  to  the  LORD 
\J     new  fongs    of  facred   mirth  ; 
O  fing  ye  praijes   to   the   LORD, 

all  people  through  the  earth. 

2  O  cheerfully  fing  to  the  LORD, 

and  blefs  his   facred  name  ; 
And   his   falvation   ev'ry  day 
to  all  the  world  proclaim. 

g  His   glory   in   Himfelf  and   works, 
among  the   nations   (how  ; 
His   works  that   are   molt  marvellous 
let  all  rhe  people  know,  4  For 


PSALM    XCVI.  173 

4  For  great,  JEHOVAH  is  indeed, 

and  greatly  prais'd  to  be; 
Above   all    Gods    to   be   ador'd, 
and   to  be  fear'd  is   He. 

5  For  of  the  heathen  all  the  Gods  \     [f  JElqhi.1 

vain  and  bafe  idols  are  ; 
But   by  the   LORD,  whom  we  adore, 
the  heav'ns  created  were. 

6  Glory  and  comely  majefty 

appear   before  his   face, 
Excelling   pow'r   with   beauty  join'd 
within   his   holy   place. 

7  O  to  the  LORD  ye  people  yields 

and    all    of  ev'ry   tribe  ; 
All  glory  to   JEHOVAH  yield, 
and  mighty  pow'r  afcribe. 

8  The  glory  to  JEHOVAH  give, 

that   to  his  name  is  due  ; 
Come  ye  into   his  courts,   and   bang 
an   offering  with  you. 

9  Worfhip  the   LORD   in  his  abode, 

his  beauteous,  holy   place ; 
And   let  the  univerfal  earth 
tremble  before  his  face. 

10  Thro'  nations  fay,  JEHOVAH  reigns, 

the   world   confirm'd  mall  be ; 
It  mail  not  move,  but   righteoufiy 
the  people  judge  will  He. 

11  O  let  the   heav'ns  be  glad, 

and  let  the   earth   rejoice  ; 
The  fea  and  fulnefs  of  the  fame 
with  roaring  make   a  noife. 

12  O  let  the  fields  and  all    therein 

with  joyful    triumph   fing  ; 
Then   all  the  trees  •  throughout  the  woods 
with  mouts  of  joy   (hall  ring. 

I  3.  13  Before 


174  PSALM    XCVII. 

13  Before   the  LORD;  for   lo   He  conies, 
He  comes   the    earth    to    try  ; 
He'll  jud:  e   his    people   with   his    truth, 
the  world  with    equity. 

P  S  A  L  M    XCVII. 

[The glorious  Reign  of  Christ   on  Earth,  both  at 
and  after  the  Conflagration,  Heb.  i.  6.  Mai.  iv.] 

1    JEHOVAH   reigns  !   O  let    the  earth 
J      exult   with   joyful    voice  : 
And  all    the   multitude   cf  ifles 
exceedingly    rejoice. 
1  Thick  clouds  and  darjtnefs  round  Him  fpread  ; 
and    yet    t'ie  "world   muit    own, 
That  fighteoufnefs   and  judgment  lit 
for  ever   on  his    throne. 

3  Fire  goes  before   Him  ;   and   it  burn* 

His   foes   up  ev'ry  where  : 

4  His   lighi'nings  lighten   thro'    the  world  ; 

earth    fees    and    (hakes    for  fear. 

5  Before  JEHOVAH's  face,  behold 

the    mountains    melting    down  ; 
Like    wax    before   the    Lord,    who   all 
the  earth  doth  rule   and  own. 

6  The    heav'ns    on    high    his    rightecufntfs 

to   all    abroad    declare  ; 
And   to   all   people-  through   the    earth 
his    glory    doth    appear. 

7  All   who   ferve    graven   images, 

fnall    now   confounded   be  ; 
And  all   who  of  their   idols   boaft  : 
all   Gods  f  HIM  worfhip    ye  ! 

8  Mount 

<f  The  Hebreiv  is  JElohjm:  And  the  Septuagint,  ancient  Latin, 
Syriack,  and  Arabick,  tranflate  it  Angels  j  and  (0  does  the 
Apojile,  and  applies  the  following  Word — Him,  to  thi 
Sjn  of  God,    Heb,  i,  6, 


PSALM    XCV11.  1 75 

8  Mount    Zion  hears    and  fees   with  joy  j 
all  Judah's  daughters   are 
Exceeding   glad  ;   becaufe  O   LORD, 
thy  judgments  now  appear. 
o,  For  over   all  the   earth   abroad, 
JEHOVAH,  Thou  art   high  ; 
Supream  above    all    other    Gods 
exalted    wondrouily. 

10  All  ye  who  truly  love    the  LORD", 

all   evil    hate  :  for   He 
The  fouls  of .  all  his  faints  will  keep,    - 
and   from    the    wicked    free. 

11  For  fuch  as   righteous   are,  is  fown 
.    a  feed   of  mining  light, 

And  of  immortal  joy  for  thofe 
who  are  in  heart  upright. 

12  Rejoice  ye  righteous   in    the   LORD, 

your  joy  in   Him  exprefs  ; 
And  give  Him  thanks   in  mem'ry  of 
hi3  ^glorious   holinefs. 

[  Hallelujah  Metre.  ] 

i    TEHOVAH  reigns  !  the  earth 
J      O  let   hereat   rejoice, 
The  num'rous  ifles    with   mirth 
Lift   up   on   high,  their  voice. 

2  About  Hirn   round 
Dark  clouds  there   went ; 
Right  and  judgment 

His  throne    do  found. 

3  Fire  goes   before  his  fight, 
Burns    up   his   foes   about  : 

4  The  world  is  filPd  with   light, 
By  light'nings  He  fends  out. 

The  earth  doth  fear, 
And   greatly    make ; 

5  The  mountains  quake, 
And   melting   are, 

I  4  As 


jj6  PSALM    XCVII. 

As  wax  before  the   LORD, 
Before  the   Lord,  who  is 
O'er  ail    the  earth  ador'd. 

6  That  righteoufnefs   of  his 

The  heav'ns  high  fhew  ; 
That  all   may  know, 
On   earth   below 
His   glory  view. 

7  Who    graven  images 
Adore,    on    them  abide 
Shall  utter  fhamefumefs, 
Who   in  their   idols   pride  : 

But  worfhip   Him  ; 
Down    to    Him    bow, 
Ev'n  ail  of  yon, 
Whom  Gols  they  name, 

3  Zion  heard  and  was  glad, 
Glad  Judah's   daughters   were  ; 
This  caufc   O  LORD,  they  had, 
Thy   judgments  did   appear. 
9  For  LORD  Thou   high 

All   earth  art   o'er, 
All  Gods  before 
In   dignity. 

iO  Ail  ye  who   love  the  LORD, 
Ail  evil   hate   do  ye  : 
To  his   faints  fouls   afford 
Protection   fafe    does   He  j 

Yea  He'll  command, 

And  timely  fee 

They  fliall    be  free 

From  wicked  hand. 

n  For  thofe  who  righteous  are, 
Is    fown  a  mining  light, 
And  gladnefs  for  their  mare, 
Who  are   in  heart  upright, 
12       Joy  in  the  LORD; 
With   thankfulnefs 
His  holinefs 
Ye  juft   record.  PSALM 


PSALM   XCVIII,  XCIX.       177 

PSALM   XCVIII.     A  Pfalm. 

1  X^v   Sing  a  new  fong  to   the    LORD  ; 
V^/      for  wonders  he  hath   done, 

His   right  hand   and  his    holy  arm 
the  victory  have  won. 

2  His    great    falvation    to    the   world 

JEHOVx^H   hath    made    known ; 
And  to   the  nations  all    abroad 
his    righteoufnefs    hath    mown. 

3  His   mercy   to   his    IfraTs    houfe 

and  truth,    remembers    He  ; 
And   now    the  ends  of  all    the  earth 
Our   God's    fakation  fee. 

4  O,  to  JEHOVAH    all  the  earth, 

make  ye  a  joyful  noife ; 
With    raifed  voices    mout   aloud, 
fing   praifes    and   rejoice. 

5  With    tuneful    harps,   and   hymns   of  praife, 

now  to  JEHOVAH   fing. 

6  With  trumpets  and  loud  cornets   mout, 

before   the  LORD    the  King. 
•7  Let   the  fea  rife,   and    roar    for  joy, 
and  all  that  is  therein  ; 
The  world    and   all   who   therein  dwell, 
let  them   be  joyful  feen. 

8  Let    the  floods  clap   their   lifted    hands, 

their  waves   to    praife    employ ; 
And  let    the    mountains    fpring   aloft, 
as  leaping  all    for   joy ; 

9  Before  the    LORD  r   for   lo   he  comes 

the    earth,    as    judge    to  try; 
With   jultice    He'll   the   people   judge, 
the   world  with   equity. 

P  S  A  L  M  XCIX. 
I    TEHOVAH  reigns   as  King   fupreme  ; 
%l      let   all  the  nations  quake  : 
He    fits    enthron'd    on   cherubims, 
let   all    the    earth    then   make. 

I  5  2  JEHOVAH 


i73  P  S  A  L  M    C. 

2  JEHOVAH  great   in    Zion  is, 

above  all  people  high. 

3  Thy  great  and  dreadful   name  let   them 

praife  for  its  fanctity. 

4  This   mighty  King  does  judgment  love, 

and   equity  ordain  : 
Both  judgment   Thou  and  righteoufnefs 
in  Jacob  doft  maintain. 

5  Do  ye  the  LORD  our  God  exalt ; 

and  bowing   worfhip  ye 
Before  the  footftool    of  his  throne  : 
the   Holy    One   is  He. 

6  When  Mofes,  Aaron,  with  his  priefts, 

and   Samuel   with   all 
Who  fought  his  name,  cry'd  to  the  LORD, 

He  kindly  heard   their   call  ! 
y  He   from   the   cloudy   pillar   fpake, 

and  mew'd   to  them    his  will  : 
The   laws   and  ihtutes   He   them  gave 

they   labour'd   to   fulfil. 

8  Thou  didft  them  hear,  O  LORD  our  God  ; 

a  fparing  *  God  Thou  waft ; 
Tho'  for  their  bold  inventions  Thou 
didft  vengeance  take    at  Lift. 

9  Exalt  the  LORD  our  God;  and  in 

his  holy  mount  adore, 
Becaufe  the  LORD,  who  is  our  God, 
is  holy  evermore. 

P  S  A  L  M    C.     A  Pfalm  of  Praife. 

1  QHOUT   to  JEHOVAH  all  the  earth  : 

2  ^3   With  joyfulnefs  the  LORD  ferve  ye  : 
Before  his  prefence  come  with  mirth, 
And  with  exulting  *  melody. 

3  Know  ye,  the  LORD   is  GOD  alone  ; 
Without  our  aid  He  did  us  make  ; 
We  are  the  people  He  does   own, 
And  for  his  pafturc-fheep   doe"  take. 


PSALM    C,    CI.  179 

4  0  enter  then  his  gates  with  praife  ; 
And   in  his    courts  aloud   proclaim 
Your  thankfulnefs  to  Him  always, 
And  ever  blefs  his  holy  name. 

5  Becaufe    the  LORD   is  ever   good  ; 
His  mercy   is    for  ever  fure ; 

His  truth  has  through  all  ages   flood, 
And  will  eternally  endure. 

[  Common  Metre.  ] 
i   /~\  To   the   LORD  a  joyful  noife, 
\J     now   make  ye  all   the    earth ; 

2  With  joyfulnefs  JEHOVAH  ferve  ; 

before  Him  come   with  mirth. 

3  Know  that  the  LORD  is  GOD;   and  He 

made  us  without  our  aid  : 
His   people  and  the   fheep  are   we 
in  his  rich  pafture  fed. 

4  O   enter  then   his   gates   with  pfl&ife; 

and   in  his   courts    proclaim 
Your  thankfulnefs   to  Him   always, 
and  ever  blefs    his  name. 

5  Becaufe  the  LORD  is  ever  good, 

His  mercy  ever  fure  ; 
His   truth  has  thro'  all  ages  flood, 

and  ever  will  endure. 
P  S  A  L  M    CI.     A  Pfahn  of  David. 

1  (~\£ \  mercy   and  of  judgment  I 
V^/     will  tune  my  voice  to  fing  : 
To   Thee   JEHOVAH   both  are   due, 

to  Thee   the   praife  I'll  bring. 

2  I   mall   the  perfect   way  difcern,  f 

when   Thou   wilt  come  to  me  ; 

And  I'll  in   uprightnefs    of  heart 

walk  in  my  houfe  with   Thee. 

3  No   wicked  thing   before   mine   eyes 

will   I  endure  to  have  : 
I  hate   their   work  who  turn  afidej 
to   me   it  mall  not  cleave. 


f  Keb,  Uiitoftand  iq  the  fCifeit  way, 


4  The 


Wo  PSALM    CII. 

4  The  ilubborn   and  the  froward  heart 

away   from  me   mall  go  : 
I'll  make    no   friendfhip  with  the  bad, 
nor  intimately  know. 

5  I'll   cut   him  off  whofe   lies   defame  |j 

his   neighbour  fecretly  : 
1    will  not   bear   the  proud   of  heart, 
nor  him  whofe  looks  are  high. 

6  I'll   eye    the  faithful   of  the  land, 

that   they   may  dwell    with    me  : 
And  who  walk   in  an    upright  way, 
mall  my   attendants  f  be. 

7  But  he   who  aels  deceitfully, 

in   my   houfe  mall   not  dwell'; 
Nor   fiuJl  he  flay  before  my  eyes, 
who  lies    allows  to  tell. 

8  Yea   all  the   wicked   of  the  land, 

early    fupprefs   will  I  ; 
From   the   LOllD's    city    cut   off  all 
who  will -do   wickedly. 

PSALM    CII. 

A  Prayer  ef  the  affiifted,  nuhen  he  is  overwbehned, 
and poureth  out  his  Complaint  before  the  Lord. 

\  (~\   LORD,  now*  hear  my  mournful   pray'r, 
\J':  And  let  my   cry   come  up  to   Thee  ! 

2  In   this  the  day  of  my  diftrefs, 
Hide   not   thy  face  away  from   me  : 
Thine   ear  to   me    O  do  thou  bend, 
In    this   my  time  of  preflvng   need, 
"Wherein    I    cry  aloud  to  Thee  : 

O  hear   and  anfwer    me  with   fpeed  ! 

3  For  as    the  fmcke    my   days    confume, 
My  bones   burnt  like  an    hearth  decay  ; 

4  My    heart   with    forrow    fmitten    is 
And  withered   like   the  grafs  away. 


So 


}|  Heb. — •zvbo  Jlandirt  :  which  is  to  defame'  by  Lying* 
•f  See  Fool's  Sjncpjs  aitf  Bjtbner, 


JSALM    CIL  181 

go  fwallow'd   up  with  grief  arrr  I, 
That  I  my  bread  forget   to  tafte. 
c  By  reafon   of  my   groaning  voice 
My   bones  ev'n  to   my  fkin  cleave   faft, 

6  I'm  like  a  mourning  pelican, 
In    the  fad  wildemefs  alone  ; 
Or  bittern  f  in   a  defart  place, 
Who  nightly   makes   a   difmal  moan. 

7  I  keep   awake  all  night   and  am 
Like  to   a   fparrow   all    alone, 

That   on   the  houfe-top   watching   fits, 
And  for  her  company   hath   none. 

8  All  day   my   foe   reproaches   me, 

And  mad  wkh    rage  againft  me  fweafs  ; 

9  That  for   my  bread   I    afhes  eat, 

And  mix  my  drink  with  ftreaming  tears. 
IO  Thine  anger  is  the  caufe  of  all, 

Thy   wrath   which   on    me   dreadful   frov/n'd ; 

For  Thou  didft  raife  me   up  aloft, 

And  now  haft   call  me  to  the  ground. 
[  2  Part.  ] 
ii  Like  madows   are  my  days  declinM  ; 

And  like  the   withered   grafs  I   fall  : 

12  But   LORD,. Thou  ever  doft  abide, 
Thy   memory  to  ages    all.  . 

13  Thou  wilt  arife  ;  to  Zion  dear 
Wilt  now   thy  tender   mercy  mow ; 
for  now  'tis  time   to  favour  her, 
Yea   the  appointtd   time  is  Now. 

14  For   in  the  very  ftones  thereof 
Thy  fervants  take    a   great   delight, 
And    even  her  defpifed  duft 

Is  ever    precious  in  their  fight. 

15  So   all  the  heathen  nations  round, 
Shall  fear   JEHOVAH's  holy   name  ; 
And  a41    the   Kings  on   earth   ihall   fee 
Thy  glory,  and  revere  the   fame. 

16  For 

f  Eccbart  in  Pot;  Syn*fjiit  and  Dr.  Cvttort  Matber% 


18*  PSALM    CII. 

16  For   when  the   LORD   fhall   Zion   build, 
He   in  his  glory  will   appear  ; 

17  The   poor's  petition  He'll  regard, 
And  He  will  not  defpife  their   prayV. 

18  This  fhall  in   writ  enrolled  be, 
For  every   fucceeding   race  ; 
That  fo   the   people  to  be  form*d 
Th'  eternal   JAH  #  may   ever  praife. 

19  From  heav'n  his  height  of  liolinefs, 

The  LORD  looks  down    on   earth  to  fee, 

20  To  hear  the   prif'ners  difmal  groans, 
And  the  bound  fons  of  death  to   free : 

21  JEHOVAH's   name   in  Zion-hill, 
His  praife   in   Salem   to  declare  ; 

22  When  people   meet  to  ferve  the  LORD, 
And  kingdoms  to  adore  Him  there. 

[  3  P"t.  ] 

23  Weak   in  the   way   my  ftrength  He   made, 
And    of  my  life   cut  fhort  the  day. 

24  In    midft  of  my   few  days,  I  cry'd, 
My   God,  O  take  me   not    away. 
Thy  years   throughout  all  ages  flay  : 

25  Thou  haft  the  earth's   foundations  laid 
In   elder  time  :  and  heav'ns    above 

Are  works   that  thine  own  hands  have  made. 

26  They   periih    fhall :  but  Thou   (halt   Jaft, 
And  they  fhall   old   like  garments  wear  : 
Thou   as  a   vefture   fhalt   them  change, 
And   they  fhall  changed  quite    appear. 

27  But  Thou  the  fame   abideft   ftilJ, 
And  of  thy  years  no  end   fhall  be  :  J 

28  Thy   fervants    race  continue  fhall, 
Their  feed  eftablifh'd   be  with  Thee. 

P  SAlM 

j|  Thefe  three  Verfes,  vlr.  25,  a6,  27,  are  eitprefly  applied  to 
the  Son  of  Cod,  in  Hebx  i,  10,  xj,  la, 


PSALM    CM.  183 

PSALM    CIII.     A  Pfalm  of  David, 

1  S~\   Thou  my  foul,  JEHOVAH  blefs, 
V^/     his  praife  aloud   proclaim, 

Let  all  my  pow'rs  in  me  confpire, 
to  blefs  his  holy   name. 

2  Still  O  my  foul,  JEHOVAH  blefs, 

and  ne'er   do  thou  forget 
His  benefits  fo  undeferv'd, 
fo  numerous  and  fo  great. 

3  He  who   moft   gracioufly   forgives 

all    thine    iniquities  ; 
He  all  thy  ficknefles  removes, 
and  thine  infirmities. 

4  Who  from  the  pit  *   thy  life  redeems, 

•when  ready  to   go  down  ; 

Does  thee   with  loving-kindnefles, 

and   tender   mercies    crown. 

5  Who  with   good   things  abundantly 

doth   fatisfy   thy   mouth  ; 
That  like  reviving  eagles,  fo 
renewed  is  thy  youth. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

6  Judgment  and  juftice   ftill   the  LORD, 

for  all  th'   opprefs'd  will  do  : 

7  His  ways  to  Mofes,  and  his  acts 

to  Ifra'Ps    race  did   fhew. 

8  Moft  merciful  JEHOVAH  is, 

moft  gracious   to   be  found ; 
To  anger  He  is  very  flow, 
in  mercy  does   abound. 

9  Tho'  He  contend  with  us  a  while, 

He  will   not  always  chide  ; 
Nor  keep  his  anger  in  his  breaft 
for   ever  to   abide. 

10  He  hath  not  dealt  with  us  in  wrath 
according  to   our  fin  ; 
Nor   has   He   recompenced  us 

1$  our  deferts  have  been..  u  But 


r84  PSALM  -OIL 

ii  Bat  as  the   heav'n   above  the  earth 
in  height   furpafles  far  ; 
His  mercy   fo   tranfcends    to   all 
who   Him  fupreamly   fear. 

12  As  far  as  eaft  is   from  the  weft 

in  their  vaft  diftances, 
So   far  hath  He  remov'd  away 
from   us   our   trefpafTes. 
C  &&rh  1 

13  The  pity  of  a  father's   heart 

which   he   his    fons   doth  bear, 

The  LORD  fuch  pity  has  for  aU 

who  Him,  as   children,   fear  ; 

14  Becaufe  He   knows  this  frame  of  ours, 

He   minds  -  that  duft   are  we  ; 

15  Man's   days  like  grafs  ;  like  a  field^flowV, 

fo  flourifhing  is  he ; 

16  But  as  the   wind   fwift   o'er  it  moves, 

fo   quick  away  it  goes  ; 
And  thence  the  place  where   it  aplpear'd 
no  more  it  ever  knows. 

17  But  yet  on  *  them  who  fear  the   LORD, 

His  mercy  ever    is  ; 
And  on  their  children's   children,  fo 
defcends  his   righteoufnefs. 

18  On  fuch   as  keep   his  covenant 

with    ftricl:-  integrity, 
And  his  commandments  bear  in  mind, 
to   do    them  faithfully. 

I  4  Part.  ] 

19  The  LORD  hath    in  the  heav'ns  on  high' 

eflablifhed   his  throne  : 
And   as  the  world   his  kingdom  is; 

He  reigns  o'er  all,  alone. 
2©  O  ye  his  angels   that  excel 

in   ftrength,  blefs    ye  the  LORD  ; 
Who  his  commandments  always  dp, 

and  hearken  to  his  word.    '  q 


PSALM    CIV.  185 

21  O  all  ye  armies  of  the  LORD, 

to  blefs  JEHOVAH  join  ; 
His  miniflers,  who  to   perform 
his  will,  with  joy  combine. 

22  O  praife   the   LORD,  all   ye   his  works 

with  which  the   world  is  full, 
In  his  dominion-  every  where  : 
the   LORD   blefs,   O  my   foul  ! 

P  S  A  L  M    CIV. 

1  f^V  Thou  my  foal,  JEHOVAH   blefs  ; 
V^/     for  Thou  art  great  and   high, 

O  LORD   my  God,  with  honour  cloath'd, 
and   comely  majefly. 

2  With   mining  robes    of  light 

Thou  doft  thy  felf  array ; 
And  like  a  curtain  to  thy   throne 
Thou   doft  the  heay'ns  difplay. 

3  His  chamber-beams  on  waters   lays, 

and  clouds  his  chariot  makes, 
And  on  the  wings    of  mighty  winds 
his  Heps  ferenely  takes. 

4  His   angeis   active   fpirits    makes, 

who  glad  before  Him  ftand  j 
His   miniflers   as  lightning  fry 
to  compafs  his  command. 

J  The  deep  foundations  of  the  earth 
fo  firmly   did   he  lay, 
That  never   from   their  fixed  place 
fnall  they  be  mov'd  away. 

6  As  with  a  robe  Thou  o'er  the  earth 

didft  fpread  the  fpacious  flood : 
Above  the  mountains  highefl  head, 
the  mighty   waters  flood. 

7  But  then  at  thy  rebuke  they  fled, 

they  dare   no   longer  flay, 
And  at  thy  thunders  dreadful  voice 
they  hailed  cjuick  away. 

S  As 


l8<5  PSALM    CIV. 

8  As    down  they  rufh,  the  mountains  rife,  * 

the    vallies    fink  below  ;  * 
And  to   the  deeps  Thou  mad'ft  for  them 
tumultuoufly   they    flow. 

9  There   haft  Thou    fet   their   certain   bound, 

which   they    may   not  pafs    o'er ; 
That   they    to    overwhelm    the  earth 
may  turn  again   no  more. 
[   2  Part    ] 

10  He   fends    the   fprings    and    ftreaming   rills 

along  the  vales  to  glide  ; 
Which    running  all   among  the   hills, 
refrefh   on   every  fide. 

1 1  Thence  drink    to   the   field-beafts  he    gives, 

their  thirft  wild    afles    flake  : 

12  And  on  their    bord'ring   boughs  the   birds 

their  fweeteft  mufick   make. 

43  From  his  high    chambers   plenteous   ftores 
He    wateis    all  the   hills  ; 
And   with   the  fruits   of  thofe  his  works 
the   earth    He   richly  fills. 

14  For   beafts   He    makes   the    grafs    to  grow, 

and  herbs   for   human  ufe  ; 
He  makes  the    earth  for  ev'ry  one 
their   various  food  produce. 

15  To   glad   man's  heart  He  make   the  earth 

to  bring  forth  grapes  for  wine  ; 
Heart-ftrengthing    bread,  and  fuppling   oil 
to   make   his   face  to  mine. 

16  JEHOVAH's    great  and  lofty  trees 

with    fap    thence    filled  are  ; 
The  cedars    of  mount    Lebanon, 
which   He  hath    planted  there. 

1 7  Upon  their   branches  cheerful  birds 

quite  fearlefs   build  their   neft; 
And  lodg'd  aloft  on  (lately  firs 
the  forks  fecurely   reft. 

18  The 


PSALM    CIV.  187 

1 3  The  tow'ring  mountains  for  wild  goats 
places    of  refuge   are  ; 
The  clefts  of  rocks  for  feebler  tribes, 
who  make   their  dwelling   there. 

19  The  changing   moon   He   conftitutes 

the  feafons    forth   to  mow  ; 
The   fun  his  time    of  going  down 
exactly  makes    to  know. 

20  Thou  doll  the  earth  with  darknefs  fpread, 

and   night  fucceeds  the  day  ; 
When  wild  beails  creeping  from  the  woods, 
are  bold  through  fields  to  ftray. 

21  Young  lions  then  range  here  and  there, 

and  hunt  for  prey  abroad : 
But  when  they  find  no  prey,  they  roar, 
and  call  for  meat  to  God. 

22  But  when  the  fun  begins   to  rife, 

and  makes  the  fhades  to  fly, 
They  all  retire  to  hide  themfelves 
and  clofe  in  dens  they  He. 

23  Then  man  goes  forth  with  chearfulnefs 

his  labours  to  begin  ; 
And  plies  his  work  throughout  the  day, 
till  evening  calls  him  in. 

t  3  P*r*-  1 

24  How  various'  are  thy  works,  O  Lord  !■ 

and  with  what  wifdom  made  ! 
Thy  riches  fill   the  earth  within, 
and  ev'n   all  over  fpread. 

25  So   is  this   great  and  fpacious  fea, 

where  fwarms  of  creatures  creep  ; 
And  fhoals  of  flfh   both  fmall  and  great, 
which  traverfe  through  the  deep. 

26  There  fail  the  (hips  amidft  the  waves, 

[thy  winds  give  them  their  way.] 
And  there's  the  great  Leviathan, 

Thou  mad'ft  therein  to  play.  » 11 


188  PSALM    CIV. 

27  All  thefe  on  thee  fubmiflive  wait, 

and  on  thy  care  depend, 
That  Thou  their  Vigour  to  renew 
may'ft  food  in  feafon   fend. 

28  That  which  Thou  kindly  giv'ft  to  them, 

they  gather  for  their  food  ; 
Thy  lib'ral  hand  Thou  op'neft  wide, 
and  they  are  fill'd  with  good. 

29  But  when  from  them  Thou  hid'fl  thy  face, 

they  troubled   are   and  mourn  ; 
Thou  tak'ft  away  their  breath,  they  die, 
and  to  their  duft  return. 

30  Thou  fend'ft  thy  fpirit  forth,   and  we 

a  new  creation  view  ; 
And  with  frem  animals  the  earth 
doft  conftandy  renew. 

[  4  Part.   ] 

31  The  glory  of  JEHOVAH  mall 

laft    to   eternity  : 
JEHOVAH  mail  in  all  his   works 
rejoice   exceedingly. 

32  If  on  the  earth  He  turns  his  eye, 

it  trembles  at  his  look  : 
If  He  the  mountains   does  but  touch, 
they  rife  into  a  fmoke. 

33  Pll  to  the  LORD  fing   chearfully 

throughout  my  life  always  ; 
Yea,  while  I  have  my  being,   I 

will  to  my  God  fing  praife. 
3.].  With   meditations   upon    Him 

I  mall  be  fweetly  fed ; 
And  ever  in  JEHOVAH  I 

mail  be  exceeding  glad. 

35  Sinners  from  earth  mail  be  confumM, 
no  more  the  wicked  be  : 
O  thou  my  foul  JEHOVAH  blefs  : 
fing  Hallelujah,  #  ye. 

P  SALM 


PSALM    CV.  189' 

PSALM    CV. 

1  f>k  To  JEHOVAH  give  ye  thanks, 
\^J     and  call  upon  his  name  ; 
Among  the  people  mow  his  deeds  . 

and  fpread  abroad  his  fame. 

2  To  Him  with  raifed  voices  fmg, 

fing  pfalms  to  Him  with  joy  : 

In   telling  all  his  wondrous  works 

your  grateful  tongues  employ. 

3  To  glory  in  his   holy  name 

with  due   refpect  accord  : 
And   let  the  hearts    of   all  rejoice 
who  humbly   feek  the  LORD. 

4  Seek  ye  the   LORD   moft  earneftly, 

his  faving  pow'r  implore  : 
O  feek    the  minings  of  his    face, 
and   feek  them  evermore  ! 

5  Recall  to  mind  what  He  hath  wrought, 

each  admirable  deed, 
His   wonders,  and  the  judgments  which 
did  from  his  mouth  proceed. 

[  2  Part.  1 

6  O  ye   the    feed  of  Abraham, 

his  fervant  and  his  friend, 
And   ye  the   chofen  race  who   from 
his  Jacob  dear  defcend. 

7  JEHOVAH  the  Almighty  is 

by  covenant  our  God  : 
And  his  moft  righteous  judgments  are 
in  all  the  earth  abroad, 

8  His  covenant   He  ever  minds, 

the  word  He  did  command, 
Ev'n   to   a  thoufand   ages  down, 

unftiaken  flill   to  ftand. 
^  The  covenant  which  firft  He  made 

with   faithful    Abraham  ; 
And  then  to  Ifaac   with  an  oath 

He  did  renew  the  fame ;  10  And 


rpo  PSALM    CV. 

10  And  then  to  Jacob   for  a  law, 

He   made  it  firm   and  fure, 
A   covenant  to  Ifrael 

which  ever  mould  endure. 

1 1  Wherein  He  faid,  *  I  will  to  you 

«  the  land  of  Canaan  give,     . 
'  The  lot  of  your  inheritance, 
*  where  you  and  your's  mail  live.' 

12  And  when  in  number  they  were  fmaJl 

againfl  their  foes  to  Hand  ; 

Yea,  at  the  firft  but  very  few, 

and  ftrangers  in   the  land  ; 

13  When  they  thro*   various   nations  went, 

from  realm  to  realm    remov'd  ; 

14  He  fuffer'd  none  to  do  them  wrong, 

but  kings  for   them  reprov'd. 

1 5  He  faid  to  thofe  who  fat  on  thrones, 

let  no  prefumptuous   arm 
Dare  touch    my  dear  anointed  ones, 
nor   do    my  prophets  harm. 

[  3   ?"*'.  ] 

16  He  call'd  a  famine  on   the  land, 

and  break   the  ftafT  of  bread. 

17  But   he  before    had  fent    a  man 

by  whom  they  mould  be  fed  : 
Jofeph  was  into   Egypt  fold, 
and  there    a   (lave   was  made  ; 

18  Whofe  feet  with  fetters  hurt,   his  foul 

was  pierc'd,   in  irons  laid. 

19  Till  in   due  time   the  blelTed  word 

of  infpiratron  came, 
A  revelation  from  the   LORD, 
that  try'd  and  clear'd  his  name : 
SO  And  then  the  king  commandment  gave, 
that  he   enlarg'd   mould   be  ; 
The  fov'reign   of  the  nation   fent 
and  fet  him  fully  free. 

21  Yea 


PSALM    CV.  i?i 

21  Yea  made  him   ruler  of  his  houfe, 

the  chief  of  all   his    land  ; 
And  all   the  fubftance   he  poffefs'd 
committed  to   his   hand. 

22  With  full  commiflion,   at  his  will 

his  princes  to   controul, 
And  teach  his    wifeft  fenators 
the    wifdom  how   to   rule. 

23  His   father  Ifr'el,    with  his  houfe, 

then   into   Egypt   came  ; 
And  Jacob   was   a   fojourner 
within   the  land  of  Ham. 

[  4  Pari.  ] 

24.  His  people  then  exceedingly 
He  multiplied    there, 
And   made  them  mightier   than   thofe 
who  their  opprefTors   were. 

25  Their  hearts  then  turn'd  that  they  to  hate 

his    people,  did  arife  ; 
And  v/ith  his  fervants   craftily 
to   deal,  did  they  devife. 

26  His  fervant  Mofes    then  He   fent, 

Aaron  his  chcfen    too  ; 

27  Who  did  within  the  land   of  Ham 

His   figns    and  wonders  mow. 

28  He  daiknefs  fent,    and  made  it  dark: 

all  things   his  word  obey  : 

29  He  turn'd  their  waters  into  blood, 

and  He  their  fifh  did   flay. 

30  Great  fwarms  of  frogs  fpread  o'er  their  land ; 

yea  chambers   of  their  kings  : 

31  His  word  all  forts  of  flies  and  lice 

in  all  their  borders   biings. 

32  For  rain  he  pour'd  down  ftorms  of  hail  ; 

flames   on  their  land  he  fent  : 

33  When   He  their  vines   and  fig-trees  fmote, 

yea  all  their  trees  He  reiit. 

34  He 


i92  PSALM    CV, 

34  He  fpake,  and   caterpillars   came, 

and  locufts  fwarmM  around; 

35  Which  eat  the  herbs   of  all  their  fields, 

and  fruits  of  all  their  ground. 

36  Then  in  one  dreadful  night  He  flew 

their  flrft-born  thro*  the  land, 
The  chief  of  all  their  ftrength,  ev'n  by 
a   mighty  angel's  hand. 

[  5  P«rt.  ] 

37  But  thence   with   gold   and   filver  He 

His   people   made  to   pafs  ; 
Nor  had   they  one  among  their   tribes 
that   faint   or  feeble   was. 

38  All  Egypt  was  exceeding  glad, 

to  fee  them   thence   depart ; 
So   great   a   fear  of  Jacob's  race, 
had  feiz'd  on  ev'ry   heart. 

39  By   day  he   for  a   cov'ring   fpread 

a  cloud  ;   and  in    the   night 

He  made  it   like    a   mining   fire, 

to  give    them  kindly   light. 

40  He  brought   them  living  quails   for  foods 

when   flefh   they  aik'd   to   have  ; 
And   fatisfy'd   them   with    the  bread 
which  then  from   heav'n  He  gave. 

41  He  open'd  wide  the  flinty  "rock, 

there  gufhed   out   a   ftream  ; 
Which  through   the  dry  and  defart  land 
in  rivers   follow'd  them. 
At  He  on  his  holy   promifes, 

and  fervant   Abr'ham  thought  : 

43  With  joy  his   people,   and  with  fongs 

He   forth  his   chofen   brought. 

44  And  then   to  them  the  pleafant  lands 

He   of  the  heathen    gave, 
That  of  the   nations   labours   they 
inheritance  might  have. 

45  That 


PSALM    CVI.  193 

45  That  they  his   ftatutes   might  obferve 
in  perfect  purity  ; 
And  in    full   freedom  keep   his  laws  r 
fing  Hallelujah  *  ye  ! 

PSALM    CVI. 

1  QING  Hallelujah  !    to  the  Lorp 
*J   give    thanks ;   for    good  is   He, 
Becaufe    his  mercy  doth   endure 

ev'n   to    eternity. 

2  Who  can  the  LORD's  great  pow'rsf  declare, 

or   fet    forth  all    his   praife  r* 

3  Blefled    are  they  who  judgment   keep, 

and  juftice   do   always. 

4  LORD  mind   me  with   the   favour   Thoia 

doll  to  thy  people  bear; 
And   with   thy   great  falvation   me 
to   vifit  now    appear. 

5  That   I   may   fee   thy  nation's  good 

which  Thou  haft  made    thy  choice; 
And  glory  with   thy   heritage, 
and  in  their  joy  rejoice. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

6  We   with   our   fathers   finned   have, 

have  finned  ev'ry   one, 
Have  trefpafTed    exceedingly, 
and   wickedly  have    done. 

7  The  mighty    wonders    Thou  haft  wrought 

in  the  Egyptian  land, 
Our    fathers   faw,   but   did  not  mind 
or  duly  underftand  : 

Nor  did. they  mind  the  multitude 

of  thy  benignities  ;  * 
But  at   the   fea,    at   the  red   fea, 

they  made  thy  wrath   to  rife. 

K  8  Never- 

f  BebreWi  Septuaght,  ancient  Latin,  and  Arabick% 


ij>4  PSALM    CVI. 

8  Neverthelefs  He   faved  them 

ev'n   for  his  own   name's  fake  ; 
That  thereby  He  his  foy'reign  pow'r 
raoft  manifefl  might  make. 

9  For    He   the  mighty  fea   rebuk'd, 

and   made  before    Him   fly  ; 
And   through  the  depths   He   led   them  fafe, 

as    through    a    defart    dry. 
10  From   his  high  hand  who  hated  them 

He  timely   did   them   fave  ; 
And   from   the   hand  of  mighty  foes 

a  full  redemption  gave. 

ii  The  waters   overwhelm'd  their   foes, 
not  one  was  left  alive ; 

12  Then  they   his   word  believ'd,  and  praife 

to   Him  in  fongs   did   give. 
[   3   Part.   1 

13  Yet  foon   did  they   his  mighty   works 

ungratefully  forget ; 
Nor  for   his    fov'reign    counfel  would 

with  due  fubmiffion  wait. 
J4  But  journeying  in   the  wildernefs, 

they   lufled    fhamefully  ; 
And   in    the   defart   would   prefume 

the  glorious  God  to    try. 

15   And   yet  the   things  which  they  required 
He  gave  them   to  the  full  ; 
But  leanefs  at   the  fame   time  fent 
into  their  pining  foul, 
j  6  They  envy'd  Mofes  in  the   camp, 
tho'    their    great   prophet    known ; 
And  with   him  Aaron  their  high  prieft, 
JEHOVAH's   holy  one. 

j  7  The   earth  her  mouth  then  op'ned   wide, 
and  Dathan  did  devour, 
With    proud    Abiram's   company, 
fmd  hid  with   dreadful  roar. 

1 8  Amgng 


PSALM    CVI.  195 

18  Among   the  reft  who  mutiny'd, 

a  fire  was  kindled  then, 
Whofe   flame   purfu'd  and  foon  confum'd 
thofe   daring  impious  men. 

19  They  made   a   calf  of  melted   gold, 

while    they  at.    Horeb    were  ; 
And  ftupidly  they  worfhipped 
the  molten  image  there. 

20  Thus  they  moffc  foolifhly   exchang'd 

Him  that   their   glory   was, 

For  the  bafe  iikenefs   of  an  ox, 

that  feeding  lives  on    grafs. 

21  They  quite  forgot    the  glorious  God, 

who   had    their    faviour   been  ; 
By   whom  fuch   mighty  things   perform'd 

they   had   in   Egypt   feen  : 
11  The  wondrous    works   which   He  had  done  . 

in  Ham's  aftonihVd   laid, 
The    fearful    things   at  the   red  fea 

wrought  by   his    fov'reign  hand. 

23  He   faid   then,  He   would  them  deftroy, 

if  Mofes    in  that   day 
Had   not   flood   in  the   dreadful  breach, 
and  turn'd  his    wrath   away. 
[  4  Part.  ] 

24  Yea  they  defpis'd  the  pleafant  land, 

and  would   not  truft  his  word  ; 

25  But  murm'iing  in  their  tents,  refus'd 

to  hearken  to   the  LORD. 

26  To  make   them  in  the  defart   fall, 

He  lifted  up  his   hand  ; 

27  Among   the   nations  to   difperfe 

their   race  in    ev'ry   land. 

28  To   gaal-peor  they   join'd   themfelvesy 

made    ofPrings  to  the    dead  ; 

29  With   theft   devices  Him  provok'd; 

the  plague  among  them  fpread. 

K  2  30  But 


i96  PSALM    CVI. 

30  But   Phlneas  rofe,  and  judgment  wrought, 

whereon  the    plague  did   ceafe  : 

31  Which   to  all  ages   is    to    Him 

accounted   righteoufnefs. 

32  Yea   at   the    ftreams    of  Meribah 

they  there   incens'd  Him   fo, 
That   ev'n  with  Mofes    for   their  fakes 

it  grievoufly    did  go  : 
53  Their  provocations   were   fo  great, 

his   patient    fpirit    ftir'd, 
That  with   his    lips  he    fpake  in  hafte 

an  unadvifed  word. 

[  5  Part.  ] 

34  They  did    not,  at  the  LORD'S  command, 

the   impious   nations   flay ; 

35  But  with   the  heathen  mix'd   themfelves, 

and  learnt  their  works  and   way. 

36  They  ferv'd    their   idols,  which  to   them 

a   fatal   fnare   became  ; 

37  Their   fons   and   daughters   facrific'd 

to   devils   in   the  flame. 

38  The  blood  of  innocents   they   fhed, 

to  Canaan's  idols   vile; 
Their   children's   blood   they  facrific'd, 
and  did   the   land    defile. 

39  Then   with   their   deteftable  works 

themfelves    polluted   they ; 
And  with   devices   of  their   own 
a   whoring  went   aftray. 

40  JEHOVAH's  wrath  was  kindled  then 

againil  his    people    more  ; 
So  that  his  own    inheritance 
He  greatly  did  abhor. 

41  He   gave  them   to   the   heathen's   pow'r, 

into   their    haters  hand  ; 

42  Their  foes  opprefs'd   them,  and  they    were 

enflav'd  to   their   command. 

43  He 


PSALM    CVII.  xp7 

43  He   many   a   time  deliver'd   them ; 
but    with  their   councils  fo 
They   Him   provok'd,  that   for  their  5c3 
again  He   brought   them   low. 

44.  Yet  He   regarded  their  diftrefs, 
whene'er  He  -heard   their   cry  ; 

45  And  He   his    covenant   for   them 

recall'd   to    memory  : 

46  Yea,  in    his   mercies    multitude 

did   He   repent  ;    and  made 

Them   to   be   pity'd   of  all  thofe 

who  them   had  captive  led. 

47  O   fave  us  in  this  darkfome  day, 

O    LORD    our  mighty  God  ; 
Thy  people   gather  where   difpers'd^, 

in    gentile  lands    abroad  : 
That   fo    we   to  thy   holy  name 

may  render  thanks  always, 
And  all   together  joyfully, 

may  triumph  in  thy   praife. 

48  The   LORD,  the   God  cf  Ifrael 

be  blefs'd   eternally  ; 
And  let  all  people  fay,  Amen  : 
ling  Hallelujah  *  ye. 

PSALM  CVII.    {TheGoodnefs  */7/^Lord~( 
\_  l.  To  Captives  and  Travellers*  ~\ 

1  f\  To   JEHOVAH   give   ye   thanks, 
V-/     becaufe  moil  good  is    He, 
Becaufe  his  mercy  doth  endure 

ev'n    to  eternity. 

2  Let   the    redeemed  of  the   LORD 

thus    of  his  mercy  fay; 
Whom   He   hath   from  the  hand  of  foes 
redeem'd   and   brought   away. 

K  3  3  From 


j98  PSALM    CVII. 

3  From    all   the  lands    wherein   they   were 

difperfed  and  diftrefs'd, 
Hath    gathered  from   the    north,    the   fea,  * 
the  eail   and  from  the   weft. 

4  They  wandred   thro'  the  wildernefs 

in    an   untrodden  way  ; 
No   habitable  town   they  found, 

nor    place    wherein  to    flay, 
cj  With    hunger  were  they  famifhed, 

with    thirfl    extremely  dry  ; 
Their  fouls    were    in    them  Gverwhelm'd, 

and  ready  were  to    die. 

6  But    then    they    to  JEHOVAH   cry'd 

in    their  extreme    diftrefs  ; 
.And  He  them  fet   at  liberty 
from   all  their  apguiihes. 

7  For    then   along   He    led    ihem   in 

a    right    tho'    trackkfs    way, 
Glad   to  a  town  inhabited, 

where   they  might    fafely  flay. 

5  0   that    men  would   JEHOVAH  praife 

for    his   great   goodnefs    theo,- 
And  for  his   many  wondrous   works 
ions    of   men. 
9  For  he   the    thirfty,   longing  foul 
-  (kiisues  : 
And   He    the    hungry  foul  with    gocd 
-    ev'n    to  the  full  fur; 

[    2.   To   Pr] fevers.   ] 

10  Such  as   mat  up,   in    darknefs    dwell, 

and    in   death's   made    abide  ; 
Who   are   in    great  affliction   bound, 
and  faft  in  irons  ty'd. 

11  Becaufe   againft    the    words    of  God 

they    did  as   rebels   rife, 
And  counfels    of  the    higheft    One 
did   daringly  defpife  : 

12  Therefor: 


PSALM    CVII.  ipj 

12  Therefore   with  flavifh  labour  *  He 

their   hearts  brought  wholly   down  i 
Under  their  burdens    down  they  fell, 
and  helper   there  was    none. 

13  But  then   they   to    JEHOVAH  cry 

in  their  extreme    diftrefs  ; 

And    He    them  fets  at   liberty, 

from   all    their  anguifhes. 

14  He  them  out  of  their  daiknefs    brought, 

and    from  death's   made  He    took  ; 
And  all  the  chains   which  bound  them  fail 
He   all  to    pieces   broke. 

15  0    that  men   would    JEHOVAH   praife 

for  his   great  goodnefs   then, 
And    for   his  many  wondrous   works 
wrought    for  the   fons    of  men; 

16  For  He   hath  into  fhivers  broke 

the  gates    of  folid   brafs, 
Afunder    cut   the   iron  bars, 
and   let  the  pris'ners   pafs. 

[   3.   To  the  Sick.   ] 

17  Fools   for    their  bold  iniquities 

and   fins,   afflicted    are  : 

18  Their   fouls   all  meat  abhor, 

to    gates   of  death  draw   near. 

19  But  then  they   to   JEHOVAH  cry 

in   their    extreme    diftrefs  ; 
And  He  them  fets  at   liberty 
from   all    their    anguifhes. 

20  He  fent   his   word  of  fov'reign  pow'r, 

and   to   them   healing  gave  ; 
And    gracioufly  deliver'd  them 

from    death  and  from    the    grave. 

21  O  that  men  would  JEHOVAH  praife 

for  his    great  goodnefs   then, 
And   for    his    many  wondrous  works 
wrought  fof  the   fons   of  men. 

K  4  '22  And 


200  PSALM    CV1I. 

22  And  of  their  thanks  the  facrifice 
'    let  them  with   pleafure  bring  ; 

And  while  his  works  they   tell    abroad, 
with  gladnefs  fhout  and  fmg. 

[  4.   To  ihofi  who  go  to  Sea.  ] 

23  All  thofe  who  down  into  the  feas 

in   floating  mips   defcend,  * 
And  venture  on  the  wateis  great, 
their  bufinefs  to  attend  ; 

24  They  there  JEHOVAH's  mighty  works 

with  waking  eyes  behold, 
And  in  the  moving  deeps  they  fee 
his  wonders  manifold. 

2 5  For  He  commands,   and   inft&ntly 

the  ftormy  winds  arife, 
Which  drive  the  fwelling  waves   along, 
and  raife  them  to  the  Ikies. 

26  They  mount  to .heav'n,  and  down  they  rowl 

to  dreadful  depths  again  ; 
Their  fouls  quite  faint  and  melt  away 
with  anxioufnefs  and  pain. 

27  As  drunkards  ftagger  to  and    froy 

they  reel,  with  tempefts  tofs'd  ; 
They  are  as  men  of  fenfe  bereft, 
and  all  their  fkill  is  loft. 

28  But  then  they  to  JEHOVAH  cry 

in  their  extreme  diftrefs, 
And  He  then  brings  them  fpeedily 
from  all  their  anguifhes. 

29  He  turns  the  ftorm   into  a  calm, 

at  his  almighty  will ; 
So  that  the  raging  waves  thereof 
grow  peaceable  and  ftill. 

30  Then  they  rejoice,  becaufe  at  reft 

they  find  themfelves  to  be  : 
So  them   He  to   the  haven  brings, 
which  they  had  long'd  t#fee. 


31  O 


PSALM    CVII.  201 

31  O  that  men  would  JEHOVAH  praife, 
for  his  great  goodnefs  then, 
And  for  his  many  wondrous  works, 
wrought  for  the  fons   of  men. 
3 1  In  all   the   congregation   great 
Him  let  them   highly  raife  ; 
And  where   &'  afTembled  elders  fit 
unite  to  fpread   his   praife. 

[5-7(3  Hnjbandmen.  ] 

33  He   to   a   defart  turns    a  land 

where  rivers    did  abound ; 
And  where  the  fprings  of  water  flo\v'd> 
into  a  thirfty  ground. 

34  A  fruitful  land   to   barrennefs- 

He    turns   beeaufe  of  fin, 
For  the  provoking   wickednefs 
of  thofe  who    dwell  therein. 

35  Then  He   the  barren   wildernefs 

with   pools    enriching   fills, 
And  turns  the  dry  and   thirfty  land' 
to  fprings  and  flowing  rills. 

36  And  there  for  dwelling  He  a  place 

does  to   the  hungry   give  ; 
Where  they  may  focial  towns  prepare; 
and  pleafantly  may  live. 

37  Where  they  may  fruitful  vineyards  plant-,. 

and  fow  .the  fertile  fields, 
And    may  receive  the  rich  increafe,- 
which    ev'ry  harveft  yields. 

38  Yea  he  fo  greatly  blefTes  them, 

He  multiplies   their  race, 
And  in  his  goodnefs    furfers  noc 
their  cattle  to   decreafe. 

39  And  when  they  are  diminilhed, 

and    for    their   fins    brought   low. 
Beneath   oppreffion,    tyranny 
?.nd  grief  are  made  to   bow  j 

K.  5  40  TV-»r 


202.  PSALM    CV1II. 

40  Then  He  on  princes  pours   contempt, 

and  caufes  them  to  ftrav, 
And  wander  in  a  wilderneis, 
wherein  they  find   no  way. 

41  But  he  from  deep  affliction  makes 

the  poor  on  high  to  rife  ; 
And  like   to    multiplying  flocks 
Ke  makes  their  families. 

42  All  this  the   righteous  fhall   behold, 

and  will   rejoice  to  view  : 
But  all,  afham'd,  fhall  flop  their  mouths, 
who  wickednefs  will  do. 

43  Whofo  is  wife  and  will  obferve 

thefe    things   attentively, 
He  fhall  the  goodnefs   of  the  LORD 
with  pleafmg   wonder  fee. 

PSALM.  CVIII. 
A  Seng   or   Pfalm  of  David. 

1  ^"N  GOD,  my  heart  is   fix'd  ;  Til  fing, 
\_S     yea  with  my  glory  praife  : 

2  Awake    my  pfaltery  and    harp  ; 

my  felf  I'll  early  raife. 

3  Thy  praife,  O  LORD,  will  I  proclaim 

among  the  people  round  ; 
Among  the  nations  I  with   fongs 
thy  praifes  will   refound. 

4  For  thy  benignity   is   great, 

ev'n   to    the    heav'ns  on    high  • 
And  thy  eternal  truth  extends, 
up   to  the  cloudy   fky. 

5  Above  the   ftarry  firmament 

exalt   thy  felf,  O  GOD  ; 
And    o'er    the  fpacious  earth  difplay 
thy   glory  all  abroad. 

6  That   thofe  who  thy  beloved  are 

may  quite  deliver'd  be  : 
O  do  Thou   fave   with  thy  right  hand, 
and  anfwer  give  to  me.  GOD 


PSALM    CIX.  203 

7  GOD  in  his   holinefs  hath   fpoke, 

and    I'll    triumph    with  joy  ; 
Shechem   divide,  and  Succoth's  vale, 
meafure   for   mine  will  I. 

8  Gilead  is  mine,   Manaffeh    mine, 

who    both    efpoufe    my    caufe  ; 
Ephraim  is   of  my  flrength    the  head, 
and  Judah  gives   my  laws. 

9  Moab    I    will   my  wafhpot   make  j| ; 

my   fhoe  o'er  Edom  fling  |j  ; 
And  over   Paleitina's  land 
I    will   in  triumph  fing. 

10  Who  will  me  to  the   city   lead, 

fo   ftrongly    fortify'd  ? 
And  who    will  into  Edom's  land 
me  and  my   army  guide  ? 

11  Didft   Thou   not  call   us  off,   O    GOD? 

yet  frill  we  look  to  thee  : 
Wilt  Thou  not  with  our   armies  go, 
and  GOD  our  leader    be  ? 

12  O  from   our  trouble   give    us   help  ; 

for    man's  help  vain   is  known  ; 

13  Thro'    GOD   we  mall  do  valiantly  ; 

and   He'll   our   foes  tread   down. 
PSALM  CIX.     A  Pfalm  of  David. 
1  "1  ^JOLD   not  thy  peace,  O  GOD  my  praife  5 
XX.   2  For  op'ned   wide  at    me 
Are   wicked   and   deceitful  mouths, 
with    tongues    of  falfity. 

3  With    words    of  fpiteful   hatred   they 

'encompafs   me    around  ; 
And   light  againfl   me,  tho'    no   caufe 
in   me  they  ever  found. 

4  They  for   my    love   became    my   foes  ; 

yet    I   for   them   did    pray  ; 

5  111   they   reward   me    for    my  good, 

and  hate  for  love  repay. 

[  2  Part,  ] 
H- See  the  Notes  oa  Pfalm  h,  8, 


C04  PSALM    C1X. 

[   2    Part.   ] 

6  But  Thou  wilt  fet  a  wicked   one 
o'er  him  to   have   command  ; 
And    at   his  right  hand   always  mail 
the  tronbler  Satan   ftand. 

1  When   he  to  judgment  comes,  he  fhall 

be   wicked   found   therein ; 
His    pray'rs    fhall    aggravations  be 
of  his  prefumptuous  fin. 

2  His  days  (hall  be   but    few  ;  his   charge 

another  man  fhall  take  ; 
9  Thou   wilt  his   children   fatherlefs,. 

bis   wife   a    widow    make. 

to  His    children   fhall    be    vagabonds* 

and    beg   continually  ; 

And  from   their  places   defolate 

fhall   feek    for    a   fupply. 

li   Extortioners    fhall   feize    on  all 
t   to    hiro    appertains  ; 
And    ilrangei-s  fpoil    the    fruits    of  all 
his    labou's,   cire    and    pains. 

12  Ncr.e    to    him    favour  (half   extend, 

nor    to    his  orphans   mow  ; 

13  His    race  fhall    fail,   nor   mall   their  names 

the    age    fucceeding    knuw. 

z\  Their    fathers  wickednefs    fhall   be 
remembred   by  Che    LORD  ; 
And    how    their    mother    did    tranfgrefs, 
fhall   itill  be   00    record. 

15  They  mall   before   JEHOVAH's   face 

appear     continually, 
Until   he  wholly    from    the    earth 
cuts   off  their   memory. 

16  Becaufe  he   did   no    mercy  mind, 

but  peifccute  the  poor  ; 
That  he   might  flay   afflicled  ones 
whofe   hearts   were   broke  before. 

17  As 


PSALM    CIX.  205 

17  As  he   did   bitter  curling  love, 

curfes  fhall  on  him  lie  ;> 
As   he    delighted   not   to   blefs, 
blefling   fhall   from  him   fly. 

18  As  he  with   curfes  cloath'd  himfelf  j 

like  water  they   (hall   flow 
Into  his  bowels,  and   like  oil 
into  his  bones  fhall  go. 

19  Like  an   enclofing  garment,   they 

fhall    compafs   him    around  ; 
And   as    a   girdle    conftantly 
they  fhall  on  him  be  bound. 

20  Thus  will  JEHOVAH  deal  with  *  thofe 

my   fpiteful    enemies  ; 
Who  evil   fpeak   againfl   my  foul,  J. 
againll  my  life  +  devife. 

[   3.  Part,  2 

a  1  But  Lord  JEHOVAH,  *  deal  Thou  wet! 
for    thy   name  fake  with    me  : 
Becauie  thy  mercies    tender  are, 
O    fet   me  quickly  free. 

22  For   I   afflicted  am    and  weak, 

and    helplefs  and   opprefs'd  ;  j| 
My   heart  moll:   deeply  wounded  is, 
and   pained   in   my   breaft. 

23  Like   to  the    fhadow  far  declin'd, 

fo  far  away   I'm  gone  ; 
And   as    the   locuft   with   the  wind, 
am   tofTed   up    and  down. 

24  By  falling  long  and  frequently 

my  knees  are  feeble  grown  ; 
And   fo  much   wafted   is  my  flefh, 
that  all  its  fat  is  gone* 

25  I'm 

£  The  Hebrew  fi'gnifies  Life  as  well  as  Soul,  and  Batb  may 
be   intended. 

t  The  Hebrew  feems  to  comprize  all  tfcffi  W?a3  y  Sec  Schindler 
asd  Martin  A'Mrts 


206  PSALM    GX. 

25  I'm   a  reproach   among   my  foes, 

who    mock   me   as    forlorn  ; 
And  always   when   they  look   on  me, 
they   make   their   heads  with    fcorn.' 

26  Help   me   JEHOVAH,   O  my  God, 

in  mercy  fave  Thou  me. 

27  That  all  may  know  this   is  thy   hand, 

that,  LORD,  'tis   done  by  Thee. 

28  When  me  they  curfe,  do  Thou  me   blefs  : 

let  them   amain*  d   be  made, 
When  they  rife   up  ;  but    O  then  let 
thy  fervant's    heart    be    glad. 

29  So    mall   my   fpiteful    enemies 

be  cloathed  all  with   fhame  ; 
And  their  confafion  lhall  like  as 
a  mantle  cover  them. 

30  But  I  will   greatly  thank  the  LORD, 

and  with    my   mouth   aloud, 
Will  joyful   praifes   to   Him    fing 
among   the  multitude. 

3 1  For  at  the    right  hand  of  the    poor 

He  ftands   to  refcue  them 
From  thofe    who  judge   unrighteoufly, 
and  would    their  fouls    condemn. 

PSALM   CX.    APfalm  e/David. 

\jthe  Exaltation,   Reign,  Prlejlhood  and  Viclories 

of  Christ.] 

1  TEHOVAH    to  my    Lord  \   hath  faid, 

J      Sit  Thou  on  high   at   my  right  hand, 

Till  I   thy  foes   thy  footftool    make, 

On   which    Thou   malt  in   triumph   ftand. 

2  JEHOVAH  out  of  Zion-hill 

The   fceptre    of  thy   flrength  will    fend  r 
And   in    the    midft   of  all    thy   foes 
Thou   fhalt   thy  reigning   pow  r   extend. 

3  But 

f  The  llehreiv  is  Adonai  j  and  figniHes,  The  Messiah  ; 
Mat,  xxii,  <\z — 44. 


PSALM    CXI.  207 

3  But  in   thy  day   of  conquering   pow'r 
Thy  people  mall  be  made  moft  free  ; 
And  will  moft  freely  Thee  obey 

In  all   the  joys  of  liberty.  J 
And  as  from   early   morning's    womb 
The   drops  of  dew  mine  o'er  the  ground, 
So  fhall  thy  num'rous  youths  be  feen 
In   holy   beauties    all   around. 

4  JEHOVAH   never  will   repent 
Of  what   refolvedly   He   fwore  j 
In   likenefs    of   Melchizedek, 
Thou  art   a  prieft  for  evermore. 

5  This    fov'reign    and  almighty  Lord,  f 
Who  fits    on  high  at  thy  right   hand, 
Shall  in  his  day   of  wrath    ftrike  through 
The   haughty   kings  that  Him  withfland. 

6  He  (hall    among   the   heathen  judge, 
And    fill  their  places    with    the  flain, 
And  wound   to  death    the  cruel   heads 
Who   over   many   regions    reign. 

7  He,  of  th'  enlivening  brook   fhall   drink, 
As   in   his    way   to   victory  ; 

Then  with   frefh    ardour   fhall   go    on.  || 
Triumph,   and   lift  his  head   on  high. 

P  S  A  L  M     CXI. 

i   QING  Hallelujah  !   praife   the  LORD 
O     I  will    with   all    my    mind, 
WThere    upright   ones  in  private  meet, 
and  are  in  publick  join'd. 

2  JEHOVAH's 

|  In  Hebrew  'tis — Thy  People  Jhall  be  Willingnesse9 
in  the  Day  of  thy  Power  :  Which  Words  are  (o  full  of  Senfe 
as  to  intimate  all  thefe  delightful  Sentiment?. 

•j-  In  Hebrew  'tis  Adonai — to  fignify  'tis  the  fame  Perfon 
mentioned  in  the  latter  Part  of  the  firft  Line  of  the  Pfalm> 
who  is  placed  at  the  Right  Hand  of  Jehovah  :  and  all 
this  is  therefore  implied. 

}j  The  Words  plainly  fignify,  That  on  his  drinking  of  the 
Brook  in  the  Way,   H?  ftould  be  wondroyfly   refre/hed 

m  enlivened, 


208  PSALM    CXL 

2  JEHOVAH's  works  are  wondrous  great* 
and    mow   his    boundlefs   might  ; 
And  are  fought  out   by  ev'ry  foul, 
who   views    them   with    delight. 

3  His  work   is   glorious  majefty, 

and  comely   honour   is  ; 
And   to    perpetual  ages   Hands  * 
that    righteoufnefs   of  his. 

4  His  works  moft   marvellous   He  made 

ftill   to  be  kept  in  mind  : 
Full   of  compaffion   is    the    LORD, 
mofl  merciful   and  kind. 

5  A  portion   of  fit  food    He  gives 

to    all    who    fear    his  .name  ; 
And  ever   will   He  bear   in   mind 
his    covenant    with    them. 

6  He  of  his   work  the    mighty  pow'r 

did  to  his   people  fhow, 
In  that   the  heathens   heritage 
He  did   on   them   bellow.. 

[   2   Part.   ] 

7  Unfhaken   truth   and  judgment  are 

the  working  of  his  hands, 
Sure   all   his    threatnings,   promifes, 
and  fare   all    his    commands.  || 

8  They   firmly   are    eftablimed 

to    perpetuity  ; 
And  are  fulfill 'd  and  perfected 
in    truth   and    equity. 

9  He  to  his  flock  redemption  fent :  » 

that  coven-ant  of  his 
For  ever   He   ordain'd  :  his  name 
holy  and  rev'rend   is. 


10  The 

[j  As  the  judicious  A.  Jackfott  cbferves — God's  Commands  in 
the  Scripture  Senfe  of  the  JVord  include  his  Statutes,  Pro^ 
nifet  and  Threatnings,  all  infeperably  joined  together 


PSALM    CXII.  ao9 

io  The  LORD'S  fear  the  beginning  is 
of  wifdom  :  they  are   wife 
Who  do  his  will :   and   evermore 
endures  his  higheft  praife. 

PSALM    CXII. 

i   QING  Hallelujah  !  *  O  how  blefs'd, 
O     The  man  who  doth   Jehovah   fear  ; 
Who  alfo  takes   a  great  delight 
In  keeping   his  commands   with  care. 

2  His  feed  (hall  multiply  on   earth, 
Be   great   and  profper   mightily : 
The  righteous  race  of  righteous  men 
Shall   blefTed   be  abundantly. 

3  Riches  and  wealth   mall   fill  his  houfe  ; 
His   righteoufnefs    no    end    fhall  find  ; 

4  Light   in    his    darknefs    (hall  arife  ; 
He's  juft,  companionate   and   kind. 

5  A  good  man  lends,   and  favour  fhews, 
And  his   affairs   with  judgment  *  guides  : 

6  Surely  he  never  mail  be  mov'd ; 
For   ever   dear  his  name  abides. 

7  111  tydings  fhall  not  him  difmay; 

His  heart  fix'd,  on  the  LORD  relies  j 

8  His  heart  fo  firm,  he  never  fears 
While  he  looks  on  his  enemies.- 

9  He  kindneffes  difperfes  round, 

And  gives   the  poor  a  meet  fupply ; 
His  righteoufnefs  (hall  ever  laft; 
His  horn   in   honour   rife  on   high. 

10  The  wicked  this   fhall  fee   and  grieve, 
And   gnafh  their  teeth   and  melt  away  ; 
While  all  their  ill  defires   and  aims, 
Shall   fail  and  utterly  decay. 

PSALM 


aio      PSALM    CXIIL   CXIV. 

PSALM    CXIII. 

l    QlNG    Hallelujah  I  fmg    his    praife, 

O   O  all  ye  fervants   of  the  LORD  : 

JEHOVAH's  great  and  glorious    name 

O   praife  ye  all  with  one  accord. 

2  O  blefTed  be  JEHOVAH's  name, 
From  this  time   to  eternity  : 

3  From   fun-rife    to  his   going  down 
JEHOVAH's   name  mail    praifed    be. 

4-  O'er    all   the   nations   of  the  world 
The  great  JEHOVAH    reigns    on  high  s 
Yonder  his   brighteft  glory  mines, 
Yonder  above  the  ftarry  fky. 

5  To   God   our   LORD   who  dwells   above, 
Who    ever  can    compared    be  ? 

6  Who    all   that  is  in    heav'n    and  earth 
Humbles  himfelf  to  mind  and  fee. 

7  Out  of  the  duft  he  raifes  up 
The  flighted  man   of  low  degree  ; 
And   from  the  dunghill  needy   men 
Surprizingly   lift    up  doth    He. 

S  That    He    may  them   advance  on    high, 
And  ev'n  along  with    princes   feat ; 
Yea    thofe  who  of  his  people  are 
The  princes    chief  in   pow'r   and   Hate. 

9  He   makes  the  barren  woman  keep 
Her  houfe  with  pleafure,  and  to  be 
Of  babes   a  mother   full   of  joy. 
Sing  therefore  Hallelujah  *  ye. 
P  S  A  L  M    CXIV. 

1  YT7HEN  Ifr'el  Egypt  left, 

V  f        and   Jacob's    family 
Did  from  a  barb'rous  \  people  there 
march  forth  triumphantly  ; 

2  Then  Judah    was   ordain'd 

to   guard  his   holy  place ; 

But  the  whole  hoft   of  Ifrael 

His  choice   dominion  was. 


f  So  the  UcbreiVt  and  all  the  ancient  Vcrfions, 


j  The 


PSALM    CXV.  211 

3  The  fea  it  faw,    and  fled ; 

and  Jordan   back   did    flow; 

4  Like  rams   the   mountains,    and   like  Iambs 

the    hills  leap'd   to   and   fro. 

5  Thou  fea  !   what  made  thee  fly  ? 

thou  Jordan  back  to  flow  ? 

6  Ye   mountains   leap    like   rams  ?  ye    hills 

like  lambs  leap  to   and  fro  ? 

7  Before  the  mighty  Lord,  f  [f  Adon.^ 

tremble  O  earth  for  fear, 
While   the  dread  prefence  of  the  God 
of  Jacob  doth  appear  ! 

8  Who  made  the  folid  rock 

melt   into   pools   below  ; 
To  fprings  of  water  turn'd  the  flint, 
and   made   the  flint  to    flow. 

PSALM    CXV. 

i   /^\  Not   to   us,    LORD,  not   to  us, 
\J     but   all    the   glory  take 
To  thine  own  name,  both  for  thy  truth 
and  fov'reign  mercy's  fake. 

2  Why  mould  the  taunting  heathen  cry, 

"  where  is  the  God  they  own  .?" 

3  Our  God  in  heav'n  fits  high  enthron'd, 

and  what  he  pleas'd  hath  done. 

4  Their  idols  filver  are  and  gold  ; 

men's  handy  work  are  they, 

5  Mouths  have  they,  but  they  cannot  fpeak 

and  eyes,  but  cannot  fee. 

6  Ears  have  they,  but  they  cannot  hear  ; 

nofes,  but  favour  not  : 

7  Have  hands   and  feet,  but   cannot  move ; 

nor  murmur  *  in  *  their  throat. 

8  Such  fenfelefs  ftocks  are  they  themfelves, 

who  did  tbefe  idols  frame.  ; 

s    And  fuch  are  all  who  to  them  pray 

and  put  their  trull  in  them. 


2M  PSALM    CXVL 

(T  2   Part,  ] 
9  O  Ifr'el,  truft  ye  in  the  LORD  ; 

your  help  and  fhield  is  He  : 
10  O  Aaron's  houfe,  truft  in  the  LORD  ; 

your  (hield  and  help  He'll  be. 
ii  Who  fear  the  LORD,  truft  in  the  LORD  ; 
He  is  your  help  and  fhield. 

12  The  LORD  hath  mindful  been  of  us  ; 

his  bleffing  He  will  yield. 

The  houfe  of  Ifra'l  blefs  He  will  ; 
the   houfe  of  Aaron  blefs. 

13  He  will  blefs  all  who  fear  the  LORD, 

the  greater    and  the  lefs. 

14  To  you  JEHOVAH  will,  to  you 

an4  to  your  children   add  : 

15  You  are  the  bleffed  of  the  LORD,        / 

that  heav'n  and  earth  has  made. 

16  The  heav'ns  of  heav'ns  are  all  the  LORD's5 

where  He  his  glory  {hows  : 
But  ev'n  on  Adam's  *  offspring  He 
the  fpacious  earth  beftows. 

17  Not  any  praife  to  JAH  #  on  high 

can  from  the  dead  afcend  ; 
No  praife  from  thofe  who  to  the  place 
of  filence   deep  defcend. 

18  But  we  th' eternal  JAH*  will  blefs, 

who  yet  alive  are  feen, 
From  this  time  forth  for  evermore, 
fing  Hallelujah   then  ! 

PSALM    CXVL 

1  T  Love,  becaufe   JEHOVAH  doth 
JL     my  voice  and  pray'r  *ilill  hear  ; 

2  And  all  my  days  will  call  on  Him, 

who  bow'd  to  me  his  ear. 

3  The  cords  of  death  on  ev'ry  fide 

begirt  me  faft  around  : 
The  pains  of  hell  laid  hold  on  me  : 
grief  and  diftrefs  I  found.  Then 


PSALM    CXVI.  213 

4  Then  on  JEHOVAH's  name  I  call'd, 

and  earneftly  did  cry  ; 
«  O  LORD  !  deliver  Thou  my  foul 
*  in  my  extremity.' 

5  JEHOVAH  juft  and  gracious   is  ; 

our  God  moft  kind  alfo. 

6  The  LORD  the  fimple  keeps,  and  He 

me  fav'd  when  I  was  low. 

7  O  now  my  foul,  do  thou  return 

to  thy  delightful  reft, 
Becaufe  the  LORD  hath  bounteoufly 
Himfelf  to  thee  exprefs'd. . 

8  Becaufe  Thou  haft  my  foul  from  death 

now  fet  at  liberty  : 
Mine  eyes  from  tears,  my  Aiding  feet 
'  from  falling  haft  fet  free. 

9  Therefore  I'll  walk  before  the  LORD, 

in  his  appointed  ways, 
While  in  the  land  of  living  ones 
He  lengthens  out  my  days. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

10  I  did  believe,  and  therefore  fpake, 

I  great  affliction  bear  ; 

1 1  Then  in  diftrefs    and  hafte  I  faid, 

that  all  men  liars  are. 

12  But  O  JEHOVAH  !  what  returns 

fliall  I  now  make  to  Thee  I 
For  all  the  many   benefits 
Thou  haft  beftow'd  on  me. 

13  I'll  take  the  cup  of  faving  health 

and  en  the  LORD's   name  call : 

14  I'll  pay  the  LORD  my  vows,  yea  now, 

before  his  people  all. 

15  In  prefence  of  JEHOVAH  is 

efteem'd  exceeding  dear 
The  death  of  ev'ry  one  of  thofe 
his  gracious  faints  who  are. 

16  I 


214  PSALM    CXVII. 

1 6  I   verily  thy  fervant  am, 

thy  fervant,   LORD,  am  I, 
And  of  thy  handmaid  am  the  fon, 
my  bands  Thou   did'ft  untie. 

17  The  facriiice   of  thankfulnefs 

I'll   offer  up  to    Thee  ; 
And  I  upon    JEHOVAH's  name 
will   cull   continually. 

18  The  vows  which  in  diftrefs   I  made, 

I  to  the   LORD  will  pay, 
In  prefence    of  his    people  all, 
without  the  leaft  delay. 

19  Within  Jehovah's   courts   therefore 

I  gladly  pay    my  vow, 
In  midll  of  thee,   Jerufalem  ! 
fing    Hallelujah  *  now  ! 

PSALM    CXVII. 

1  f~*\  All  ye  nations  of  the  world, 
\J  JEHOVAH  praife  always  ! 
And  all   ye  people   ev'ry   where, 

let  forth   his    higheft  praife  ! 

2  For  great  his  kindnefs  is    to  us, 

arid   flows   for  ever   free  ; 
JEHOVAH's   truth   will   never  fail, 
fing  Hallelujah  *  ye  ! 

[  Long   Metre,  ] 

1  f\  All    ye    nations  of  the  world, 

V-/  To  praife  the  LORD  with  joy  combine  \ 
And  all  ye   people   ev'ry  where 
To  Him  in   fongs  of  praifes   join  ! 

2  For  his   moft  wondrous  grace  abounds, 
And  flows  to  us  for  ever   free  ; 
JliHOVAHs  truth  will-hewer   fail, 
Therefore  fing  Hallelujah  *  ye  ! 

PSALM 


PSALM    CXVIII.         2js 

I       PSALM    CXVIII. 
i   /*~\  Praife  the  LORD,   for  He  is  good, 
\^J     his  mercies  ne'er  decay: 

2  And  that  his  mercies    ever  laft, 

Jet   thankful   Ifr'el    fay. 

3  Their  fenfe   of  his  eternal  lore 

let  Aaron's  houfe  declare  : 

4  And  that  it   fails  not,  let   all  fay, 

all    who   Jekevah    fear. 

5  To  the   almighty   JAH  *  I  cry'd 

in    my  extreme  diftrefs  ; 
And  JAH  *  on  high   me  heard,  and  brought 
into    this    happy    place. 

6  The  LORD  is  for  me;  I'll  not   fear 

what  man  to   me   can  do  : 

7  The   LORD   is  with    my   helping   friends ; 

and   I  will  face  J  my  foe. 

8  'Tis    better   on   the   LORD    to  trull, 

,  than   truft  in  man's    defence  ; 

9  Better   to  truft  the  LORD  than   place 

in  princes  confidence. 

[  2  Part.  ] 
10  All  nations    round  environ'd  ||   me, 
defign'd    my    fatal  fall  ; 
But  in   JEHOVAH's    mighty   name- 
I   overcame   them   all. 
n  They  compafs'd  me,  again,  again, 
and   try  d    my    utter    fall  ; 
But   in  JEHOVAH's   mighty  name 
I    did   fubdue  f   them  all. 

12  Like 

%  So  the  Hebrew  and  Syriack  :  i.  e.  Face  with  Courage, 
and  Confidence  cf  Viclory.  The  Septvcgint  renders  it— » 
difdain  ;    and  the  Arabick — overcome. 

||  The  Sept.  Syr.  Arab:  JEthiop,  arc  Jerom,  as  alio  Tremelitis 
and  Junius,  Pifcator,  Ainftvortb,  De  Mais,  BivetzrA  Geir, 
render  thefe  Conquefts  as  being  paf,  and  her*-  mentioned  as 
Encouragements  to  hope  for  future  V'clories. 

•f-  So  the  A?tbiopick  :  or,  cut  them  down  j  as  Mmanus, 
Pifcadr,  Ainfwgrth,  Rivet  zn&Geir, 


2i6         PSALM    CXVIII. 

12  Like   angry*  bees   they  round  me  fwarm'd, 

rag'd  like  a   thorny   flame ; 
Yet   quenched  and   deftroyed  were, 
but   in   JEHOVAH'S  name. 

13  When  they   pufh'd  hard  to   beat   me  down, 

JEHOVAH  helped  me. 

14  The  mighty  J  AH  *  my  ftrength,  my  fong, 

and  faving   help  is   He. 

15  In  tents  of  righteous  men  is  heard 

the  voice  of  health  and  joy  : 
The  LORD'S  right  hand  gives  mighty  ftrength  J 
and  works    moft  mightily.  J 

16  JEHOVAH  by  his  mighty  pow'r 

advances  them  on    high  :  J 
The  Lord's  right  hand  gives  mighty  ftrength  J 
and  works   moft   mightily.  J 

C  3   P^t.  ] 

17  I  fliall  not  die,  but   longer   live, 

and  gratefully  declare 
The   works    of  our   almighty   JAH,  * 
how  wonderful   they  are. 

18  For  JAH  hath  forely  me   chaftiz'd, 

till   juft  of  life   bereav'd  : 
But   kindly   from   the   gates  of  death, 
my  fainting  life   repriev'd. 

19  O  fet  wide   open  now   to   me 

the   gates  of  righteoufnefs  ; 
And  I  will  enter  them,   and   there 
the  praife  of  J  AH  *  confefs. 

20  This  gate,  JEHOVAH's  blefled  gate, 

into   his   houfe  doth   lead  : 
The  righteous  love  to  enter  in  ; 
and  entering  in  are  glad. 

21  Among  thefe  righteous    ones  I'll  be, 

and  praife   on  Thee  beftow  ; 
For  Thou  haft  heard  me,   and  to   Thee 
I   my  falvation   owe. 

22  The 

J  Sec  the  Hebrew,  Septuagint,  Syrin 'c\ 

1 


PSALM    CXVIII.         217 

2.2  The    done  ||  the    builders   did    defpife, 
and  utterly   difclaim, 
Is   now  the  chief  and  earner   ftone, 
which  bears   up   all   the   frame. 

23  This    work  JEHOVAH's   mighty  pow'-c 

hath   brought   to  pafs   alone  ; 
And    we  in  great  amazement   fland, 
to  fee  what   He    hath  done. 
[  4  Part.   ] 

24  This   rs   the   great   and  bleffed  day 

the    LORD  himfelf  hath  made  ; 
And    we    will   all   therein   rejoice, 
and  be   exceeding  glad. 

25  JEHOVAH   we  +  now   Thee   befeecli 

Salvation    to   afford : % 
We  f  humbly  Thee  entreat  now  fend 
profperity,    O  LORD  ! 

26  He  that  comes  in   JEHOVAH's  name 

O    let   him   bleffed    be. 
Out   of  JEHOVAH's   houfe  to  you 
a   blefling  wifh  do   we. 

27  God  is  JEHOVAH,  who  to  us 

hath  made  his    light  to    rife  : 
Bind    therefore  to  his   altar's  horns 
with   cords,  our  facrifice. 

28  Thou  art  my  God,   and   I'll   proclaim 

for  evermore    thy  praife  : 
Thou  art  my  Gcd,  and  thy  great  name 
my    thankful    fong   fiikll    raife. 

29  O  to  JEHOVAH  give   ye   thanks  ; 

immenfely  good   is   He, 
Becaufe  his  mercy   doth    endure 
ev'n   to  eternity. 

L  PSALM 

R  Applied  to  Christ,  Mat.  xxi.  A&s  \v.  Eph.  ji,  1  Pet.  if. 
•j-  So  th«  Cbaldee.     The   Word — Ana — which  I  here  render 

— We — is  an  jldveib  ;  and  applicable  both  to  the  Singular 

and  Plural  Number. 
J  This  Line  in  Hebrew  is    Hosanna— -and   this  Word  and 

Verjs^  are  plainly   alluded    to   by   the   exulting  Multitude 

applying  it  to  Christ  io  Mat,  xxi.  9. 


2i8  PSALM    CXIX. 

P  S  A  L  M    CXIX. 

£Every  Verfe  cf  this  Pfalm  reprefehts  the  fuperiour  Excellency 
of  the  written  Word  of  God  :  and  under  tie  iv;fc  Conduct  of 
Jnfpiration  it  ?v  s  compos' d  luitb  the  great:)}  Plaintiffs,  with- 
out Poetical  Ornaments.  It  mujl  be  therefore  our  TVifdom  to 
reprefent  the  Original  in  its  infpiSd  Simplicity,  both  of  Seu- 
timents   and  Style,  with  ail  the  Exailnefs  po£ible.~\ 

1  TTOW  blcfs'd    tlie    upright   in    the   way  ! 
JHX  Who   in    JEHOVAH'S   law  will  go  : 

2  Who   keep   his    records   blcfs'd    aie   they, 
With   all    their  heart  who   feck   him  too  : 

3  And  who   work  not  iniquity, 

But    in   his    ways  Uriel:    walkers  are. 

4  Thou  haft   commanded   us   to   keep 
Thy   precepts    with   our   utmoft  *   care. 

5  O   that   my   ways   eftablifh'd  *  were 
To  keep   thy  ftatutes  needfully  ! 

6  When  I   all  thy    commands  regard, 
Then    be  afhamed  mail   not   I. 

*j  When  thy  juft  judgments  I   mall  learn, 
Thee  with  an  upright   heart  I'll  praife. 

8  Me  utterly  forfake  not  Thou  ; 
And   I'll    thy    ftatutes  keep  always. 

[  2   Part.  ] 

9  By   what  may  youth   make   pure  their  way  ? 
Thy   wcrd    by    ftric!    attending    to. 

10  With  'dl  my   heart  I  fought  for  Thee  : 
From   thy   commands    ne'er   let   me    go  ! 

ii   I  jiid    thy    word   within   my   heart, 
Left  I  mould    give    offence   to   Thee. 

12  O  Thou,  JEHQVAH,   blelTed  art; 
Thy   ftatutes   therefore  teach  Thou  me  i 

13  I    all    the   judgments    of  thy   mouth 
Did   with   my  faithful   lips   declare. 

14  My    joys    more    in    thy    records   way, 
Than  in    aU  earthly   riches   are. 

»5  I'll  on   thy    precepts    meditate, 

And   on   thy    ways    mine   eyes   will  fet : 

16  Thy   ftatutes   fhall   be    my    (delight  ; 
And   I   thy   word   will  not  forget. 

[  3  Part*] 


PSALM    CXIX.  it? 

[  3   Port.  ] 

17  O   to  thy  fervant  give  this   grace, 
that   I    may   live    thy   word  to  keep  : 

1 3  Unveil   mine  eyes,   that   I    may  fee 
Within    thy  law    the    wonders    deep-. 

19  I   am  a    ftranger  in   the   earth; 

O   never    hide  thy  laws  from   me. 

20  My  foul    is    broken   with    defire, 
Thy  judgments    at   ail  times   to   fee. 

21  Thou   haft   rebuk'd    the   proud  accurs'd, 
Who   from    thy  facred   ftatutes  fwerv'd. 

22  Reproach    and  mame    roll   off*  from  me  } 
For  I   thy   records  have   obferv'd. 

23  The  great  agairft  me  fit   and  fpeak, 
But    I   thy   Jaws    my  ftudy   make  : 

24  Thy   records    are   my  great   delight, 
And   them  my   councellors   I   take. 

[  4  Part.   ] 

25  Down   to   the  duft  my   foul  cleaves   faft  ; 
After  thy  word  revive   me  now  : 

26  I  told   my    ways,   and   Thou  didft  hear  j 
Thy   ftatutes   teach   Thou  me  to    know. 

27  Thy  precepts   way   O   learn   Thou   me; 
Thy    wonders   then  *  will  I  declare  : " 

28  My    foul    with   grief  diffolves    away  ; 
O    by  thy   word    my  ftrength    repair  ! 

29  The    way  of  lies   from   me   remove ; 
Grant   me   thy   law's   enlight'nihg   aid  : 

30  For  I  have  chofe   the    way   of  truth  ; 
Thy  judgments    I    before  me   laid. 

31  I   to  thy   teftimonies    cleave  ; 

O   LORD    mame   on    me   never   caft : 

32  I'll   run   thy  precepts    way    with  joy, 
When   Thou  my  heart   enlarged   haft. 

ta  [5  Part.  ] 


228  PSALM    CXIX. 

[  5  Part.  ] 

33  O  teach  me,   LORD,   thy   ftatutes  way ; 

And  I  will  from   it  ne'er  depart  : 
34.  Inftruct   me  ;  and   I'll  keep   thy  law, 

Ana!   it   obferve   with   all   my  heart. 

35  In    thy  laws  path  make   me   to   go; 
Becaufe  therein   my  pleafure  lies  : 

36  O    to  thy  records   bow  my  heart, 
And  leave   it   not  to   avarice. 

37  From   all  vain  objects  turn   mine  eyes; 
Me   in  thy  way  revive   and  chear. 

3$  O  to  thy  fervant  keep  thy  word, 
Who   is    devoted   to   thy   fear. 

39  The  flander  which   I  fear   remove ; 
Good   are   the   judgments   Thou   dofl  give, 

40  See  how   I  for    thy  precepts  long  ; 
Me  in   thy   righteoufnefs  revive. 

[  6  Part.   ] 

41  LORD,   let  thy   mercies   come  to  me ; 
After  thy   word,    falvation    (how  : 

42  So    I    my  fland'rers  fhall  refute  ; 
Becaufe  thy  word   I  trufted   to. 

43  The  word  of  truth  keep  in    my   mouth, 
For  on   thy  judgments  I   depend. 

44.  So  I  with    care  will  keep  thy   law, 
With  confhncy,  ev'n  to  the  end. 

45  Yea  I  will  walk   at   liberty  ; 
Becaufe  I  thy  commandments  feek  ; 

46  And  I   before  the  greateft   kings 
Will  boldly  of  thy  records  fpeak. 

47  In   thy  commands  which  I  have   lov'd 
My   felf  I'll  greatly   recreate. 

48  To  thy  lov'd  precepts    lift  my  hands3 
And  on  thy  ftatutes  meditate. 

[  7  Part   ] 


PSALM    CXIX.  221 

C   7  P*rt   3 

49  Jood  to  thy  fervant  make  thy  word, 

By  which  Thou    mad'ft  me   reft   on   Thee  i 

50  My  comfort  in   diftrefs   is   this, — 
Thy   faithful    word    hath    quick'ned   me.. 

51  Tho]   proud   ones    greatly   me  deride, 
I   have  not  from  thy   Jaw    deciin'd.  * 

52  Thy  judgments,   LOUD,  which-  were   of  c'kL 
I    have   reviewed,  and    comfort  find. 

53  I'm   ftruck   with  horror,   to  behold 
How  impious   men    thy   law  forfake  : 

54  But  in    my  houfe   of  pilgrimage, 
Thy   ftatutes  are  the   fongs  I    make. 

55  By    night    remembred  I   thy    name, 

0  LORD,    and  kept   thy  laws   ha,ve  I  s 

56  This    comfort    I  receiv'd  J  becaufe 

1  kept   thy   precepts   needfully. 

[   8   Part.   ] 

57  The    LORD    my  chofen   portion    is  : 
I  faid    that   I   will  keep    thy  word. 

58  I   fought  thy  face  *  with    all    my   heart  : 
After    thy    word,  *    me    grace   afford. 

59  I   view'd   my  ways    and   turn'd  my  feet*       1 
Into  thy   teftimonies  way  ; 

60  I   haiVncd  thy    commands   to    keep, 
And  made   not  any   more  delay. 

61  Tho'   bands    of  wicked    men  me  fpoil, 
Thy   laws   I   think   on  with    delight. 

62  FU    rife   at    midnight   Thee   to    praife,. 
Becaufe    thy   judgments    all    are    right. 

6$  Companion  to    them    all    am   I, 

Who  keep  thy   laws,  and  rev'rence   Thee  : 

64  O    LORD,   thy  mercy   fills    the  earth, 
Thy  ftatutes   kindly  teach  Thou   me. 

L  3  [9  fy*.  ] 

J  The  Syn'ack  renders  it — This  it  a  Conflation  to  me  ;  and 
£0  Junius  and  TfemelittSy  Rivet  and  Giajjluu 


222  P  S  A  L  M    CXIX. 

[  9  Part.  ] 

65  0   LORD,  Thou  with  thy  (errant  well 

According  to  thy   word  hail  done  : 

66  Good   taite   and  judgment  teach  Thou  me, 
For    I   thy  laws   have   refied   on. 

C ;   ]  efore    I    was  chafllz'd,    I   ftray'd  ; 
it   now  to   keep   thy  word   I   learn. 
h   good   Thou   art,   and   good  Thou    dofl ; 
Thy  ftatutes   caufe  me    to   difcern. 

69  The  proud    againft   me    forge    their  lies  ; 

Thy  laws   I'll  keep    with  heart   upright  : 
*C  Their  heart  is  grown    as   fat   as   greafe ; 

But  in   thy    law  is   my  delight. 

7 1  That  I   might   well   thy  ftatutes   learn, 
*Tis   good   that  Thou   didfl   me   chaftife. 

72  Laws   of  thy   mouth    I    far   above 
FnOufands   of  gold  and  filver   prize.- 


[  10  Part.  ] 

73  Thy  hands    have   made   and   fafhion'd  me  ; 

Wiitiom   to  learn  thy   laws  afford  : 
7;.  Who   fear    Thee    mall    fee    me  with  joy, 
caufe    I've  hoped  in   thy  word. 

75  Thy    judgments,   LORD,   are   right   I   know, 
And    in    thy    truth  *    Thou    chaflnefh  me  : 

76  After   thy  word,    thy    fervant   to, 
Now    let   thy    grace    my   comfort   be  ! 

77  Thy    kindnefs   (how,  that  I  may  live  ! 
Thy   law   with    pleafure   I    perufe. 

78  Shame  proud  ones   who.  me  caufelefs   wrong, 
While    on    thy  precepts   I   will   mufe. 

79  Let   fuch    as    fear  thee,    and    who    know 
Thy   teftimonies,   turn   to   me  : 

Sq  My  heart  make  in   thy   laws   entire, 
That   I  may  not  afhamed   be. 

.[  11  Part.  2 


PSALM    CX1X.  223 

[    11    Part.   ] 

81  Looking  for  thy  falvatiori  Jong, 

My  foul  faints  ;  yet   I  truil  thy   wore!  i 

82  Mine    eyes    fail    for  thy   word  ;   and   cry, 
When   wilt   Thou  comfort   me   afford  ? 

83  I'm   like   a    {kin  f   dry'd   in    the    fmoke  ; 
Yet  I   thy  laws   do   not   forget  ! 

84  How  long   thy  fervam's  days  ?   when   wilt 
Thou  judge   the   men   who    me   befet 

85  For  me  the    proud    have    digged  pits, 
Which    never   would   thy  law   allow  : 

$6  For    all   thy  laws   are   truth  *  ;   help  mey 
"Whom    they    unrighteoufiy    purfue. 

87  They   almoil   me    confum'd   on   earth  ; 
Yet    from    thy   laws   I    did    not    fwerve. 

88  O   in   thy    mercy    me   revive  ; 

And  thy  mouth's  records  I'll    obferve, 

[  12  Art::-} 

89  Made    faft   thy    word   in    heav'n,   O   LORD, 
It    doth    eternally    endure  : 

90  Thy    truth  for  ever   lafb  ;  and    Thou 
The  earth  haft  founded,   and   'tis   fnre  : 

91  By  thy    decree    they  Hand   this    day; 
For   they   all  fervants   are  to  Thee. 

92  Were  not  thy  law   my  joy,   I    foon 
Had   perifh'd  in   adverfity. 

93  Thy  laws   I'll   ne'er  forget  ;  for  Thou 
By  them  hail  quickning  to   me  brought  ; 

94  O    fave   me  ;   for   I'm   wholly  thine, 
And   careful    have    thy    precepts    fought, 

95  To    ruin  me   the   wicked    watch  ; 
But  I   thy  teftimomes   mind  : 

96  Of   all  perfection  J   bounds  I  fee,; 
But    Thy  command  is   unconfin'd.  || 

l4  i%fifa*i 

f  The  Hebrew  fignifies  a  Veffel'mzfa  of  a  Skin  in  the  Form 

of  a  large  Bottle, 
%  i.  e.  The  Perfection  of  2!]  Creatures  in  this  lower  World, 
U  In  it's  Excellencies,  Influences,  Bentfm, 


224  PSALM    CXIX. 

[   '3  Port.  ] 

97  How   greatly   do   I  love  Thy  Jaw  I 
Jt  daily   my  fw.eet  ftudy   grows  : 

98  By   thy  laws,  ever   with  me,   Thou 
Haft  made  me  wifer  than  my   foes. 

99  More  than    my   teachers  all,  I  know  ; 
Becaufe  thy  laws    my  ftudy  are  : 

ico  I  know   more    than    the   ancient   do  ; 
Becaufe   I  keep  thy  laws    with   care. 

j  c  1  From   all   ill    ways    I  kept  my  feet ; 
That   I   might    well  thy    word  obey  : 

102  Becaufe   thou   haft  inftru&ed   me, 

I  did  not  from  thy  judgments    ftray. 

103  Kow  fweet  thy  words   are   to  my  tafte  ! 
Mere  to  my    mouth    than   honey   they : 

104  I  from  thy  precepts    wifdom   gain  ; 

And  therefore  hate  each  lying  way. 

[    14  Part.  ] 

105  Thy  word  is  to  my  feet  the  lamp, 
A  mining   light   to   fhow  my  way  : 

106  I   (ware,    and  to    perform,    refolve 
Thy    right'ous  judgments    to    obey. 

107  I'm  fore  diitrefs'd  ;  LORD    me  revive, 
According    to    thy    faithful    word  : 

ic8  My    moutb*s    free    ofPrings,  O    accept ; 
And   me   thy  judgments  teach,  O  LORD. 

109  My  foul   is    always   in    my  hand, 
Yet  did    I    not  thy  law   forget  : 

110  Nor  from   thy  precepts  have  I   ftray 'd, 
Tho*   fnares   for  me  the   wicked   fet. 

1 1 1  Thy  word  my  endlefs    heritage 

I    chufe,  as  of  my  heart  the   joy  : 
J 12   My   heart    to   do    thy    will    I   bow, 
And  therein   all   my  life    employ. 

[  15  P^t.  ] 


PSALM    CXIX.  Z2S 

[   15  Part.   ] 

1 13  Proud,  wav'ring   and  vain  J  thoughts  I  hate  ; 
But  dearly  love  thy   law  do  I  : 

114  My   covert  and  my  ftiield  art  Thou  ; 
And  on   thy  word    I-  firm    rely, 

115  Depart  from    me  ye  wicked  men; 

For,   keep    my  God's    commands  I  mufl  ; 

116  By   thy  word   ftay  me;    and  I  live, 
Nor   am  afhamed  of  my  truft. 

1 1 7  Uphold  me  and  I   mail  be  fafe  ; 
And  I    thy  laws  will  always   eye  : 

118  Who  leave  thy  laws  Thou  treadeft  down; 
For  their  deceit  is  all  a  lie. 

119  Earth's  lewd,  as  drofs  Thou  throw' ft  away; 
To   love  thy  law   I'm  therefore   led : 

120  My   flefli    all  makes    for    fear  of  Thee, 
And   I    thy  judgments  greatly  dread. 

[   16  Part.   ] 

121  O,  to  oppreflbrs,  leave  me    not; 

I  judgment  do   and   righteoufnefs  : 

122  For   good,   thy  fervant's    furety  be  ; 
And  let   not   proud  ones  me  opprefs, 

j 23    Mine  eyes  for    thy  falvation   fail, 
And  for  thy  word  of  equity, 

124  In   mercy    with   thy   fervant  deal  ; 
And   all   thy  ftatutes  teach   Thou  me," 

125  I   am  thy   fervant  ;  make  me  wife, 
Thy  teftimonies  all  to  know : 

126  'Tis  time  for  Thee,  O  LORD,  to  work, 
For  men   thy  law   abolifh  *   now. 

J27  Hence    above   gold,   the  fii.eil  gold, 

Thy  law  I  love  and    eftimate  : 
]  28  And   all   thy  precepts    right    efteem, 

And  ev'ry  way  of  falfhocd  *  hate. 

L5  [17/W,] 

\  The  Hebrew  feems  to  figaify  fill  thffe  ;  S$6  Q^£\ui}  Ait.-- 
worth,  Leigh,  &c, 


226  PSALM    CXIX. 

[    17  Part.  ] 

129  Replete   with   wonders  are   thy   words  ; 
Therefore  my   foul  keeps  them   with   care  : 

130  The    op'ning    of  thy    word   gives   light; 
And  makes  them  wife  who  fimple   were. 

131  With    open  mouth   for   thy   commands 
I   pant,   with  longings    for  the   fame. 

132  Lbok    on;  in  judgment  f  pity  me, 

As  Thou  doft  thofe   who  love  thy  name. 

T33  By  thy   word,   order  all  my   Heps; 

Let  no  fm  over  me  bear  fvvay. 
134.  Save  me   from   being   opprefsM  by   man; 

And   I  will   all  thy  laws  obey. 
j  35  Thy  face  let  on   thy  fervant  mine, 

And   me  to  learn  thy  ftatutes  caufe : 
136  While  tears  in  floods  run  down  mine  eyes, 

To  fee  men  violate  thy  laws. 

[    18  Part.  ] 

337  Stedfaftly  juft   Thou  art,  O  LORD; 

Thy  judgments   art  upright  alfo  : 
3  38  Thy  records  which  Thou  doll   command 

Are    right'ous   and   molt  #   faithful    too. 

139  My   zeal   confumes    me  to  behold 
Mine  enemies  thy  words  forget : 

140  Thy  word    is   moft    rehVd ;  *    therefore 
Thy    fervant's  love  thereon  is  fet. 

141  Tho'   I    am  little    and   defpis'd  ; 
My   foul  thy  precepts    yetietains: 

1 42  Thy   righteouihefs  for   ever  lafls  ; 
Thy   law   eternal    truth    remains. 

143  Di&icfs  and  anguiih   on.  me  feize  ; 
Yet  great  delight  thy  precepts    give  : 

144  Thy    records    ever    right'ous    lafl  ;  •*> 
O  make   me   wife,  and  I  mail   live.     - 

[  [9  Part.  ] 

f  So  Sept.  ancient  Latin,  Arab.   Tdunfer,  Ver.   149,   ar.d  the 
JiikiivLwara  1  h  e»  tfre  'Judgment  given,  in  thy  Werd, 


PSALM    CXIX.  227 

[    19   Part.  ] 

145  To  Thee   with   all  my   heart  I    cry; 
LORD    hear,  and  I'll  thy  word    obey  : 

146  To  Thee    I   cry,  O   fave  Thou   me  ; 
And    I   will    keep  thy  records    way. 

147  Before   the  morning  dawn   I   cry  ;. 
And   for  thy  word  in    hope  |j  I    wait,  f| 

148  Mine   eyes    prevent  the  midnight  watch, 
Upon,  thy  word   to  meditate. 

149  My  voice,  LORD,   in  thy   mercy   hear. 
Revive   me   in   thy   judgment  J  too  : 

150  They  who  feek  mifchief  near   me   come  \ 
But  from  thy  law  far  off  will  go. 

151  Bur,  O    JEHOVAH,   thou  art  near; 
All   thy  commands    are  verity. 

152  Of  old  I   know,   thou   founded  hail 
Thy  records   for  eternity. 

[  20  Part.   ] 

15 3  My  griefs    confider,   and   me  fave; 
For    I    do    not   forget    thy   laws    : 

154  For    thy  word's  fake  revive   Thou  me3 
Deliver  me,  and  plead  my  caufe. 

155  Salvation    is    from    imn£rs   far, 

Since  for  thy  laws   they  wilf  not  ftrive : 

156  Thy  tender   mercies,    LORD,    are   great  t 
After   thy  judgments  §   me   revive. 

157  Many   my   perfecuting   foes  ; 

Yet   from   thy  laws  I    do  not  fwerve  : 

158  I  finners    fee,    and    greatly  grieve  ; 
For  they  thy  word  do  not  obferve. 

159  Confider  how   I   love   thy  laws  ; 

In   mercy  LORD    revive  Thou   me  : 

160  Thy  word  is    ever  perfect    truth, 
Tiy  judgment  jufl  eternally. 

[  2  z   Part.  ] 

J)  The  Hebrew  includes  both   Ideas. 

J  i;  e.  thy  Judgment  given  in  thy  Word  in  Farour  cf  thy  Peoplr, 

§•  i,  «,  thy  Sentences  cu  t»y  Judge  dccl.ued  in  thy  Wgrd, 


223  PSALM    CXIX. 

[  21  Part.  ] 

161  Great  men   me   caufelefs   perfecute  ; 

But  more  thy  word  o'er-awes   my  mind  ; 

162  And  yet  I   in   thy    word   rejoice, 
As  they  who   ftores  of  riches   find. 

163  I  falfliood   utterly   abhor, 

But  dearly  love  thy   law  always  : 

164  And  for   thy    right'ous   judgments    I 
Ev'n  feven  times  a  day  Thee  praife. 

365  Great   peace   have  they   who  love  thy  law; 

No  ftumbling  ftone   fhall    them  offend  : 
J  66  For   thy    falvation,    LORD,   I    hope; 

And   thy  commands  with   care  attend. 
167  My  foul   thy   teftimonies  keeps  ; 

And  them   I  love   exceedingly. 
:53  I    keep   thy    records   and    commands  ; 

For  all   my  ways  before  Thee  lie. 

[22  Part,  ] 

169  O   let  my   cry,   LORD,   come   to  Thee; 
After  thy   word  me  prudent  make  : 

170  Let  my  requeft  before  Thee  come  ; 
And   fave  Thoa-we  for  thy  word's  fake. 

171  To  Thee   my  lips    mall  utter   praife, 
"When  Thou  thy  itatutes   teacheft   me  : 

172  .My  tongue  fhall  forth   thy    word  refound, 

For  all   thy  laws  are  jufl,  I  fee. 

173  O   help  me   by  thy  mighty  hand; 
For  I  thy  precepts   make  my  choice. 

174  LORD    I   for  thy  falvation    long  ; 
And  grea'ly  in   thy   law    rejoice. 

175  Let  my   foul   live;  and  I'll  Thee  praife; 
And  from    thy  judgments  fuccour  find  : 

176  Thy  fervant  feek,  who  like  ftray  fheep 
Am  loll ;  yet   I   thy  precepts   mind. 

PSALM 


PSALM    CXX,  CXXL      12$ 

PSALM   CXX.    A  Song  of  Degrees.  \\ 

1  T  In  diftrefs   cry'd   to  the  LORD  ; 
X     and  kind,   He  heard  my  cries. 

2  LORD,  fave  my  foul  from  guileful   tongues 

and  lips  inur'd  to   lies. 

3  What  fhall  to  thy  falfe   tongue  be  done? 

or   giv'n,  thou  (landerer  ? 

4  Sharp  arrows  of  the   Mighty  one, 

and  coals  of  Juniper. 

5  Ah  !   wo  is  me,   that   I   am   forc'd 

in   Mefhech   to   refide  ; 
And  muft  in   the  ungodly  tents 
of  Kedar   ftill  abide  ! 

6  My  foul  has   long   been   forc'd   to  dwell 

with   them   who  peace   abhor : 

7  I   am  for  peace  ;   but   when  I   fpeak, 

they   all  declare  for  war. 

P  S  A  L  M-CXXI.   A  Song  of  Degrees. 

1  "II"  To   thofe  mountains    lift  mine   eyes, 
X     from  whence  muft  come  mine   aid : 

2  Mine  help  muft  from  JEHOVAH   come, 

who   heav'n  and   earth  has    made. 

3  He  will  not  let  thy  foot  be  mov'd, 

nor  fl umber  who  thee  keeps  : 

4  Lo,   He  who   keeps  his  Ifrael, 

He  {lumbers  not,  nor  fleeps. 

5  The  LORD   thy  keeper  is  ;  the   LORD 

thy  made    on   thy   right  *  hand  : 

6  The  fun  mall  not  fmite   thee  by  day, 

nor  moon  by  night  offend. 

7  JEHOVAH  will  preferve  thy  foul ; 

he'll   keep  thee  from  all  ill  : 
%  Thy  going  out  and  coming  in, 
the  LORD  keep  ever  will. 

PSALM 

jj  Ihh.  AJcenfiom  :  and   perhaps  the   Titles  of  thefe  fifteen 

Wtim  m*y  roan~tlw  ^««/w  of  the  $9»I  to  Gqj>, 


23o     PSALM  CXXII,  CXXIII. 

PSALM  CXXII.  A  Song  of  Degrees  of  David. 

i  TT  was  my  joy  to  hear   them  fay, 
X     come  to  the   LORD'S   houfe  go  : 

2  O    dear  Jerufalem,  our   feet 

thy  gates  fhall    pafs   into. 

3  Jerufalem  is  builded  up 

into   a  city  frame  : 
Quite   uniform   and  beautiful 
and   compact   is    the  fame. 

4  Whither  the   tribes,   the   tribes    of  JAH  * 

to  Ifr'ePs  witnefs  go  ; 
That  there   they  to  JEHOVAlTs  name 
their  thankfulnefs   may   fhow. 

5  Afcd   there  the   thrones  of  judgment  rais'd 

eftablifhed   remain  ; 
The   thrones  that  to  the  royal  houfe 
of  David  appertain. 

6  Pray   for  Jerufalem's  firm  peace  : 

they  profper  who   love   thee  : 

7  Be  in  thy   walls  and   palaces 

peace   and  profperity. 

8  Now,  *   for  my   friends    and  brethren  fake* 

I  wilh   thee    perfect   peace  ; 

9  And  for   our   God  JEHOVAH's    houfe, 

I'll   feek  thy  happinefs. 

PSALM    CXXIII.     A  Song  of  Degrees,. 

1  (^\  Thou   who  in  the  heav'ns  doft  dwell, 
\J     I  lift  niine   eyes    to   Thee. 

2  Behold,    as  fervants   eyes    intent 

their  matters   hand   to  fee  ;    , 
As   maids   eyes  to   their  miltrefs  hand  ; 

to  Thee  our  eyes  are   fo  ; 
To  Thee  the   LORD  our  God,  till  Thou 

wilt   mercy   on   us  mow. 

3  O   LORD,   be  merciful  to  us, 

to   us,   O  gracious   be  ! 
Jot  filled  with  contempt   ?m<i  fcorB 
exceedingly  are  we*  4  Out 


PSALM   CXXIV,  CXXV.      431 

4  Our   fouls   are   filPd    exceedingly 
with  feoffs  of  men  at  eafe  ; 
And    with    the   fcorns   of  proud  n?en  who 
from   fcoffing  never   ceafe. 

PSALM  CXXIV.  A  Song  of  Degrees  <?/Davi& 

1  T  TAP  not  the  LORD   been  on  our  fide 
JlX      may    Ifr'el    now    confefs  ; 

2  Had  not   the   LORD   appeared   for   us, 

in  our  extreme  diftrefs ; 

3  When   men   againfl   us   rofe,  inflam'd 

with    rage  and    cruelty ; 
Like  rav'nous  beafts  *  they   us   alive 
had  fwallow'd   inftantly. 

4  Or   like   o'erflowing   waters,   they 

had    rag'd  without  controul  ; 

5  -The   waters  proud,  the  mighty  ilreaniS; 

had   overwhelmed   our   foul. 

6  Then  ever  praifed  be   the  LORD, 

who  fav^d  from  inflant    death  ; 
And   would  not  give    us  up    a  prey 
to  their  devouring  teeth. 

7  Our  foul  efcap'd   is   as    a   bird. 

out  of  the  fowlei's  fnare  : 
The   fnare  afunder    broken    is, 

and    we    efcaped   are. 
%  Our  fure   and    alfufficient   help 

is  in   JEHOVAH's  name; 
Who   all  the  glorious  heav'ns  around, 

and  all   the  earth  did  frame. 

PSALM     CXXV.     A  Song  of  Degree*. 

ALL  thofe  who  in  JEHOVAH   truft 
mail  like  mount    Zion    be  ; 
Which  mall  not  be  remov'd,  but  ilands 
to  perpetuity. 
2  See  how  around  Jerufalem, 

the    mountains  ftand  on   high  ; 
The  LORD  his  people  fp  fvurgunds 
hence  to  eternity,  g  fox 


232  PSALM    CXXVI. 

3  For,  finners  rod  upon   the  lot 

of  juft    men  mail  not  lie  ; 
Left  righteous  men   ftretch  forth  their  hands 
to    do    iniquity. 

4  To   all  who  are  fincerely  good 

thy  goodnefs   LORD  impart ; 
And   let  it  freely   flow   to   all 
who   are  of  upright   heart. 

5  But   thofe  who   turn  to  crooked   ways, 

the   LORD    will    make  to  go 
With    workers   of  iniquity, 
but   Ifr'el  peace  fhall  know. 

PSALM    CXXVI.     A  Song  of  Degrees. 

i  T  T  7HEN   from  captivity  the   LORD 
VV      his    Zion  did  redeem  : 
We   in  an   extacy   of  foul 

were  like  to   them  who  dream. 

2  Then  were  our   mouths    with  laughter  fill'd, 

our   tongues  with  fhouts  did   found  : 
'  The  LORD  hath  done  great  things  for  them,' 
the  heathen  freely   own'd. 

3  Great   things    and  marvellous  for   us, 

the  LORD  hath    done  indeed; 
In  the  furprizing  view  whereof 
our  hearts    with   joy  exceed. 

4  LORD,   our   remaining  captives   bring 

home   from  the   batbVous  foe, 
Like   cooling  ftreams   which   in  the  foutb 
to   thirfty  regions  flow. 

5  Who   fow  in   tears  fhall  reap   in  joy, 

6  Who  going  forth,  did   mourn, 
Bearing  choice  feed ;  fhall  fill'd   with  joy, 

bringing  full  Sheaves   return. 

PSALM 


PSALM  CXXVII,  CXXVI1L   233 

PSALM    CXXVII. 
A   Song   of  Degrees    of  Solomon. 
1  T  TNlefs  JEHOVAH  builds  the  houfe, 
\^J      vain  is  the   workman's   pain  : 
Unlefs  the  LORD    the   city   keeps, 
the   watchmen    watch  in   vain ; 
1  *Tis   vain    for   yon   to  rife   betimes, 
and   late   from    reft  to    keep, 
Or  eat  the  bread    of  care :    'tis    He 
gives   his  beloved   ileep. 

3  Lo,  children    are  an    heritage, 

the    LORD    alone   beitows : 
Poflerity   is    a    reward 

which*  from  his   bounty  flows. 

4  As  arrows  in  a   mighty  hand 

when    enemies    are  near  *r 
So  children   grown   up   in  their   youth 
to  their  glad  parents   are. 

5  How   happy  is    the   man   who   hath 

his    qaiver    full  of  thofe  ! 

For    he  undaunted  in   the  gate, 

will  fpeak  to  all  his   foes. 

PSALM  CXXVIII.   A  Song  of  Degrees* 
1   TJOW   greatly  blefTed   is  the  mao> 
XI     how   blefTed    all  his  days, 
Who   fears    JEHOVAH,   and  who  walks 
uprightly  in    his  ways. 
2. For   thy  hands  labour  thou   malt   eat 
and    happy  malt  thou    be : 
In  all    the  changes  of  thy  life, 
it   fhall  be  well  with   thee. 

3  Thy  wife   fhall  like    a  fruitful  vine 

by    thy   houfe   fide  be   found  ; 
Thy  children  like    fair  olive  plants 
adorn   thy  .  table  round. 

4  Lo  thus  the  man  who    fears  the  LORD 

mall    greatly    blefTed    be  ! 

5  Yea  more,  the  LORD  from  Zioa  will 

his  bjeffing  fend  to  thee.  The 


2.3.4    PSALM  CXXV1II,  CXX1X. 

The  good  of  our  Jevufalem, 

her    great    felicity, 
Thou   (halt   thro'  all    thy   Iengthned  life 
with   raifed   pleafure   fee. 
6  Yea  of  thy    children's    children    thou 
("halt  fee  a.  glad  incrcafe, 
And   our  dear  land  of  Ifrael, 
in    all   the  joys  of  peace. 

[  Long    Metre.  ] 

1  TTOW  blefsM  is  he  who  fear?  the  L 
JLjL    And   walks   in    his   appointed    ways. 

2  For  thy    hands    labour    thou   fhall  eat, 
And  .malt   be  happy   all    thy  days. 

3  Thy  wife  'fhall   like    a  goodly  vine 
By  thy  houfe  fide    be  fruitful   found  : 
Thy    children  like  fair   olive    plants, 
Adorn  thy    cheerful    table  round. 

4  I,o,  thus  the    man  who  fears  the   LORD, 
With    earthly    good   fhall    bleffed   be  : 

5  Yea  more,   the  LORD    from    Zion    hill 
Will  heav'nly    blelTings    fend    to    thee. 
The  good  of   our  Jevufalem, 

Thou   all    thy    happy  life   malt   view. 

6  Thy   children's    children    thou    fhalt  fee, 
And   peaceful   times  on    Ifr'el  too. 

PSALM    CXXIX.  A  Song  of  Degrees. 

1  /"~"\FT   from  my   youth  '  they_  me  diftrefs'd, 
\^J     may  Ifr'el   fay   with  joy ; 

2  Oft    from    my  youth,   they   me  diftrefs'd, 

but   never   could   deftroy. 

3  My  back   as   ploughers,  oft  they  piough*d, 

and    furrows   long  did  make ; 

4  But  the  juft  LORD,  the  wicked's  cords 

did  all  afunder  break. 

5  All  thofe   who   Zion   hate  fhall   be 

confounded   and  o'erthrown  ; 

6  Shall   be   as   grafs  on  houfes  tops, 

which  fades  before  'tis  grown..  Whereof 


PSALM    CXXX.         235 


ron 


7  Whereof  enough   to  fill    his  hand 
the    mower   cannot  find; 
Much.  Iefs   can  he    his  bofom   fill, 
whbfe  work  is  fheaves  to  bind. 

S  Nor  thofe  who   pafs  by  Cay — '  On    y. 
'JEHOVAH's  bleffing  reft  !' 

Nor   thefe    reply — 'In    the  LORD's  name 
1  we  wim  yon  to  be  blefs'd  !'  j 

P  S  A  L  M     CXXX.  '    A  Song  of  Degrees. 

1    T     ORD  !    from  the  deeps   I  cry  to  Thee  ! 

J J    2   My  voice  Lord  do    thou   hear  ! 

And  to    my  fnp plications  voice, 

0  give  attentive   ear  ! 

3  L:rd,  who  can    ftand,    if  thou  O  JAH  * 

mouldir.   mark    iniquity  ? 

4  But  with    Thee    there  forgivenefs   is 

that  feared    thou   may 'it  be. 

5  Therefore  for  Thee,  O    LORD,    I  wait, 

my  foul  fill!  waits   for   Thee  ; 
And- on  thy  known  and  faithful  word 

1  hoce  continually. 

6  My  foul  looks  out  more  for  the  Lord, 

than    watchers   in   the  night  ; 
Yea  more   than  watchers    weary'd   out, 
look  for  the    dawning   light. 

"I  Let   Ifr'el  then  wait   hopefully, 
and  on  the  LORD  confide  ; 
For    boundlefs    mercies    with  the  LORD 
continually    refide  : 
8  Yea   plenteous    redemption  is 
eternally   with    him  ; 
And  Ifr'el  He  from  all  their  fins, 
will  perfectly  redeem. 

[  Long 

Thefe  two  Verfes  reprefent  the  ancient,   pious,  mutual  Salu~- 
tgiions  of  Mowers,  Reapers  and  Paflengers  in  IjraeU 


23  6     PSALM  CXXX,  CXXXI. 

[     Lor.g  Metre.      ] 
i   T     ORD,  from    the  deeps  I   cry  to  Thee ; 

2  I    A  My  voice,    Lord,  do  Thou  kindly  hear  ! 
And  to   my   fupplications    voice, 

O  give  thou   an  attentive  ear. 

3  O  JAM  !   if  thou  fhouldir.  mark  our  fins, 
Who  can  before  Thee  fland,    O    Lord  ? 

4  But  there  forgivenefs  is  with  Thee, 

'   That  Thou  may'ft  humbly  be  ador'd. 

5  I   for  the   LORD   wait  ;  my  foul  waits, 
And   I    hope   in    his    faithful    word  : 

6  Than   watchers  for  the   dawning  look, 
My  foul   more  looks  out  for  the  Lord. 

7  Let   Ifr'el   then   wait   hopefully, 
And  ever   on   the  LORD   confide  ; 

For   bcundiefs   mercies   with   the    LORD 
To    perpetuity  '  abide. 

8  Yea    plenteous    redemption  is 
Ev'n   to  eternity    with    him  ; 

And  Ifr'el   He   from    all   their  fins 
Will   to    eternity  redeem. 

P  S  A  L  M    CXXXI. 
A  Song  of  Degrees  of  David, 
j    TEHOVAH,   fee   my  open  heart, 
J      if  it   is    haughty    grown  ; 
Or  if  mine   eyes    are   rais'd   aloft, 

unlefs   to    Thee   alone  ; 
If   I   in    any   things    too   great 

and   high   for    me    afpire, 
To   exercife   my    {t\i ;  or   if 
too   high   is   my  defiie. 

2  Or  if  I  do  not   now   compofe 

my  foul   to   quiet  reft, 
Ev'n   as   a  young    and    weaned  child, 

wean'd  from  the  mother's  breaft.  » 

3  Let  Ifr'el  then  look  to  the  LORD, 

and  his   kind    aid  implore ; 
And  on  his  tender  cave  rely, 

henceforth  and  evermore.  [  Short 


PSALM  CXXXI,  CXXXII.     237 


'M 


[     Short  Metre.     ] 

Y  heart's   not  haughty,  LORD, 
nor  lofty  are   mine  eyes  :       , 
In   things   too    great   or   high  for  me 
is  not  mine  exercife. 

2  I   as  a  child  behave 

wean'd  from  the  mother's  breaft  : 
My  foul  ev'n  as  a  weaned  child, 
fubmits  and  lies  at  reft. 

3  Let  Ifr'el  on  the  LORD, 

reft   therefore  quietly  : 
Yea  henceforth  ever  hope  and  wait,    ■ 
his  faving  help  to  fee. 

PSALM   CXXXII.    A  Song  of Degrees. 

1  "p\AVID,  and  all  his  troubles,  LORD, 
X_J  O  do  Thou  kindly  think  upon  : 

2  How  to  the  LORD  he  fware,  and  how 
He  vow'd  to  Jacob's  mighty  one  5 

3  Into  my  tent  I  will  not  go, 

Nor  to  my  bed  for  fweet  repofe; 

4  No  deep  will  to  mine  eyes  afford, 
Nor  flumber  fhall  my  eye-lids  clofe  ; 

5  Until  I  for  the  LORD  have  found 
And  for  his  ark  a  dwelling  place  ; 
For  Him  who  is  the  mighty  One, 
Of  Jacob,  and  his  favoured  race. 

6  Beheld  at  Ephrata  we  heard 
The  place  of  it's  retir'd  abode  ; 

And  fearch'd  till  it  we  found  with  joy> 
In  a  dark  field  enclos'd  with  wood. 

7  We'll  go  into  his  facred  tents, 
Our  wormip  at  his  footftool  pay. 

8  Arife,  O  LORD,  into  thy  reft, 

And  with  thine  ark  of  ftrength  there  flay; 

9  L«t 


338         PSALM    CXXXIII. 

9  Let  righteoufnefs  thy  priefb  adorn, 

Thy  faints  with  fhouts  their  joy  difplay : 
io  And  for  thy  fervant  David's  fike  j| 
Turn  thy  Messiah  J  not  away. 
[   2    Part.  ] 

1 1  The  LORD  to  David  fware  in  truth  ; 
The  oath  he  never  will  difown  ; 

"  I  one  descended  from  thy  loins 
"  Will  furely  fet  upon  thy  throne  : 

12  "   And  if  my  covenant  and  law, 

"  That  to  thy  children  teach  mall  I, 

"  They  always  keep,  then  fhall  their  race 

"  Sit  on  thy  throne  perpetually. 

13  "  Becaufe  the  LORD  hath  Zion  chofe, 
*5  And  there  defir'd  to  have  his  feat  ; 

14  "  This  is  my  reft  for  ever  ;  here 
"  111  dwell,  for  I  defired  it  : 

15  "  I'll  her  provision  greatly  blefs, 

"  And  fatisfy  her  poor  with  food  : 
26  "  Her  priefts  with  my  falvation  cloath, 
"  Her^faints  with  joy  fhall  fhout  aloud. 

17  "  There  Davids  horn  I'll  make  to  fpring,f 
"  There  my  Messiah's  *  lamp  ordain  : 

18  "  With  fhame  I'll  cloath  his  foes  :  on  Him 
"  His  crown  iliall  fiourifh  and  remain." 

P  S  A  L  M    CXXXIII. 
A  Song  of  Degrees  of  David. 

1  T>£HOLD,  how  good  it  is, 
JD      and  what  a  joy  to  fee, 
When  brethren  with  each  other  dwell 

in  love  and  unity. 

2  'Tis  like  the  precious  oil, 

they  pour'd  on   Aaron's  head  ; 
Which  down  his  hair  and  garment  flow'cf, 
and  fragrant  odours  fpread.  ^  * 

|j  i.  e.  Thy  Fromif>  made  to  David.  %  Heb — Messiah  : 
and  fo  th-  Sept.  Chaldee,  ancient  Latin  &  A>ab  r.  e,  eifher 
David  (or  Solon.on,  as  the  Chsldee)  the  Typical  Messiah, 
or  Christ  thw  Real.      \  Seethe  Hebrew  Lexicons, 


PSALM  CXXX1II,  CXXX1V.    239 

3  Or  as    refrefning  dew 

on  Herman's  mount  diflills  ; 
Or  like  the  pearly  drops  that  mine 

on  Zion's  joyful  hills. 
For  there  the  LORD  commands, 

and  doth  his  bleiiing  give, 
The  foretafte  of  that  bleffednefs 
which  mall  for  ever  live. 

[   Hallelujah  Metre.   ] 

1  OEHOLD  how  good  it  is, 
X3     and  what  a  pleafiog  fight, 
When  brethren  dwell  in  love, 

and  cordially  unite  ; 
When  all  agree 

to  act  their  part 

as  with  one  heart 
In  charity. 

2  'Tis  like  the  precious  oil, 

that  gave  a  fragrant  fmell  ; 
Which  pour'd  on  Aaron's  head, 
adown  his  locks  it  fell  ; 
From  whence  it  fried 
along  his  breaffc 
down  to  his  veil, 
And  odcurs  fpread, 

3  Or  as  refreshing   dew 

on  Hermon's  mount  diitills; 
Or  like  the  drops  that  mine 
on  Zion's  joyful  hills. 
The  LORD  on  high 
there  bleffing  gives, 
and  blifa  that  lives 
Eternally. 
PSALM  CXXXIV.    J  Song  ofBegreis. 

1  "OEHOLD,   blefs  ye  the  LORD, 
,    D     ye  the  LORD'S  fervants  all, 

Who  in  the  LORD's  houfe   ftand  by  n:ght, 
and  there  upon   Him   call. 

2  Lift  up   your  hands  ;    the  LORD 

blefs  in    his   holy  place. 

3  The  LORD,  who  heav'n  and  earth  has  made, 

thee  out  of  Zion  blefs.  j-  Halldujab 


24o    PSALM  CXXXIV,  CXXXV« 

[  Hallelujah  Metre.  ] 
i  "XTZ   Servants  of  the   LORD, 

ji       who  in  the  LORD'S  houfe  wait, 
And  keep   your  watch   before 
the  threshold  of  his  gate  ; 
The  LORD'S  praife  fing      ' 
by  filent  night, 
'till   cheerful   light 
Of  morning    fpring. 
3  Lift    in  his  holy   place, 

your  joyful  hands   on   high  ; 
And  fay,   the  LORD  we  blefs, 
who  made  the  earth  and  fky. 
3  And  may  he  ftill 

thee  greatly  blefs 
with  joy  and  grace. 
From    Zion-hill. 

PSALM    CXXXV. 
%  f^\  Sing  ye   Hallelujah  *  now, 

\Jf  And  praife  JEHOVAH's  holy  name  ; 

O  all  ye  fervants  of  the  LORD, 

His  praifes   all  abroad  proclaim. 
%  Ye  who  within  the  houfe  do  ftand, 

Wherein  the  LORD  has  his  abode  ; 

And   in  the  court-yards  of  his  houfe. 

Who  is  by  covenant  our  God. 

3  Sing  Hallelujah  *;   for  the  LORD 
Is  good  :  fing  praifes  to  his  name  ; 
For  it  is  fweet   to  be    employ'd 

His  praife  in  fmging  to  proclaim. 

4  For  the  eternal    JAH  *  hath  chofe 
Jacob  for  his  propriety  ; 

And  his  peculiar  treafure  hath 
He   taken   Ifrael  to   be. 

5  For  well  we  know,  the  LORD  is   great, 
And  that  this  fov'reign  Lord  of  ours 
Tranfcends   all   that  are  called   Gods, 
And  reigns  o'er  all  cieated  pow'rs. 

6  la 


PSALM     CXXXV.  341 

6  In  heaven  and  earth  the  LORD  hath  done, 
Whatever  his  own  mind  did  pleafe  ; 

In   the    deep   caverns   of  the   earth, 
And  in  the  great  and  fwelling  feas. 

7  From  the  wide  furface  of  the  earth 
He  makes   the  vapours    to  arife  ; 

He   makes  the  lightning   for  the  rain, 
And  winds   brings   from  his   treafuries. 
[   2   Part.  ] 

8  Egypt's  firft  born,   both    man    and  beafl 

9  He  flew  :  and  wondrous  tokens  He 
On  Pharaoh  and  his  fervants  fent, 
O    Egypt  in   the   midft   of  thee. 

10  Great  nations  fmote,    great  kings  he  flew, 

1 1  Sihon,    who    was    of  Hefhbon    king, 
And  Og  of  Bafhan  ;   and   to   nought 
All   Canaan's  kingdoms    he   did   bring. 

~J2  And   gave   their  land    an-  heritage 
To    his    own    people    Ifrael. 

13  O   LORD,   eternal   is   thy  name» 
LORD,   endlefs    thy  memorial. 

14  JEHOVAH  will  his  people  judge, 
And  for  his   fervants    turn    again. 

15  The  heathen   idols   filver   are 

And   gold  ;    the   handy   work  of   men* 

16  Mouths  have  they,   yet  they    cannot  fpeak  • 
And  they  have    eyes,    but  never  faw  ; 

17  Ears   have    they,    yet  they  nothing  hear* 
Their  mouths   no   breath   can   ever  draw. 

18  Such  fenfelefs    flocks    are  they   themfelves. 
Who  did   thefe  fenfelefs    idols   frame'; 
And  fuch  are  all  who  to  them  pray, 
And   put    their    confidence    in    them. 

19  O  houfe  of  Ifr'e!    blefs   the   LORD  : 
The  LORD  blefs — who  of  Aaron's  are  : 

20  The  LORD,  O  houfe  of  Levi  blefs  : 
The  LORD  blefs  ye,  the  LORD  who  fear. 

M  21  From 


s42         PSALM    CXXXVI. 

21  From  Zion-fnll  his  facred  feat, 
O  let  JEHOVAH  bleiTed  be; 
Who  dwells  within  Jerufalem  : 
O   fing,  fmg   Hallelujah  *   ye. 

PSALM    CXXXVI. 
i   f~\   Thank   the   LORD  ;  for  he  is   good, 
V^/     For  ever   are   his  mercies  fure : 

2  Thanks   give   ye    to  the   God   of  Gods  ; 
His   mercies   evermore   endure. 

3  Thanks  give  ye  to    the   Lord  of  Lords  \  f 
For  ever   are   his   mercies  fure  : 

4  Him   who  alone   does   wonders   great ; 
His  mercies   evermore  enduie. 

5  To  Him   whofe   wifdom  made  the  heav'ns ; 
For  ever  are  his  mercies  fure  : 

6  Who  o'er  the  waters  fpread  the  earth  ; 
His  mercies  evermore  endure. 

7  To  Him  who  made  great  lights  to  fhine  ; 
For  ever  are  his  mercies  fure. 

8  The  .fun  to  rule  and  guide  the   day, 
His  mercies  evermore  endure. 

9  The  moon   and  ftars  to  rule  the  night  ; 
For  ever  are    his  mercies   fure. 

10  Who  the  firft-born  of  Egypt  fmote  ; 
His  mercies   evermore   endure. 

1 1  Who  from  among  them  Ifr'el   brought ; 
For  ever  are  his  mercies  fure. 

3  2  With  a  ftrong  hand  and  ftretch'd  out  arm  5 
His  mercies  evermore  endure. 

1 3  Who  the   red  fea  afnnder  clave  ; 

For  ever  are  his   mercies  fure. 
24   And  through  the  midft  made  IiYel  go  ; 

His  mercies   evermore   endure 

15  But  there  drown'd  Pharoab  and  his  hofl ; 
For  ever  are  his  mercies  fure. 

16  H13  people  through  the  defatt  led, 
His  mercies  evermore  endure, 

17  To 

•f  Adoni  Adonim, 


PSALM    CXXXVII.        243 

17  To  Him  who  mighty  kings  did  fmite  ; 
For  ever   are  his  mercies   fure. 

18  And  famous  kings   in   battle  flew; 
His   mercies  evermore    endure. 

19  King   Sihon   of  the    Amorites  ; 
For  ever  are  his  mercies  fure. 

20  And  Ogg  of  Baflian   mighty  king  ; 
His  mercies  evermore  endure. 

21  And  gave  their  land  an  heritage; 
For  ever  are   his  mercies   fure. 

22  To  his  dear   fervant    Ifrael  ; 
His  mercies  evermore  enduie. 

23  Who  minds  us   in  our  low  eflate  ; 
For  ever  are  his  mercies    fure. 

24.  And  who  redeems  us   from   our  foes. 
His  mercies  evermore  endure. 

25  Who  to  all  ikfh  gives   proper  food  ; 
For  ever   are   his   mercies  fure. 

26  O  to  the  God  of  heav'n  give  thanks  ; 
His  mercies  evermore  endure. 

P  S  A  L  M    CXXXVII. 

1  A    S   by    the    ftreams    of  Babylon 
JTjL.  We  captives  fat  with  anxious  fears; 
Then  we  dear  Zion  thought   upon, 

And  melted  into  fireams  of  tears. 

2  Our  harps,   our  infbruments   of  joy, 
Which   us'd  with  chearful  fongs  to  found, 
We   hung   upon    the  willow  trees, 
Which    on   the  (haded   banks  abound. 

3  Becaufe  *  our  foes,  who  all  confpirM 
To  triumph    in    our   flavifh  wrongs, 
Mufick  and  mirth   of  us  requir'd  ; 

1  Come  fing  us   one   of  Zion's  fongs  ' 

4  But,  ah  !  how  could  we  guide  cur  hands 
To   play,   with  hearts  fo  full  of  wees  ? 
Sing  Zion's  fongs   in  heathen  lands, 
JEHOVAH's    hynms  to  cheat  his  foes  ? 

'  II  2  e  O 


244       PSALM    CXXXVIII. 

5  O   dear   Jerufalem  !    if  I 
Ever  of  thee  forgetful   grow  ; 
Let  me   the  flcill  of  my  right  hand 
For  ever  wholly  ceafe    to  know. 

6  Let  my  tongue  to  my  palate  f  cleave. 
If  thee  remember  mould  not  I, 

Or  don't  prefer   Jerufalem, 
Above  my  higheft  earthly  joy, 

7  LORD,   Thou   remembreft  Edom's  fons* 
Who   on   Jerufalem's  fad  day, 

*  To  the  foundation  raze  her  !'   cry'd  ; 

*  Raze,  raze  her  !'  out  aloud  cry'd  they. 
#  O  Babel's  daughter  !    doom'd  to  fall  ! 

That  conqueror  jj  fhall  blefled  be, 
Who,  juft  as  thou  haft  done   to  us, 
Will  do  in  righteoufnefs  to  thee  ! 

«o  Yea,  he  fhall   bleffed  be  by  heav'n, 
.  Who  fhall  by  heav'n   employed   be, 
Upon  the  ftones   to  dafh  thy  race, 
And   end  thy  cruel   progeny. 
PSALM  CXXXVIII.  (APfalm)  c/David.f 
i ;  V  T  7ITH  all  my  heart  I'll  Thee  confefs, 
VV       to  Thee  my  thanks  will  brieg. 
And  openly  before  the  Gods,  J 
I'll  praifes  to   Thee  fing. 
2  Towards  thy  howfe  of  holinefs  # 
I'll  bow  and  worfhip  Thee  ; 
Arid  thy   great  name  to  celebrate, 
fhall    my  employment  be. 

But  chiefly  for  thy   love  and  truth 

thy  praifes  I'll  proclaim  ; 
For  over  all,   Thou,   by  thy   word, 

haft  magnify'd   thy   name. 

3  The 

%  i.  e.  The  Roof  of  the  Mouth-— as  all  the  Verfions,  Lexicons',  and 

Writer*  of Anatomy ,  both  in  Latin  and  Er.glijh,  tcilify. 
\\  Who   proved  to  be   that   glorious   Conqueror  Cyeus, 
-jh   Gbaldee — By   the    Hand    of  David. 
X  It  may  mean  both  Mighty  Men  and  AngehK 


PSALM    CXXXIX.        245 

3  The  very  day  I   cry'd  to  Thee, 

Thou    kindly    didft  reply  ; 
And    Thou   didft  fortify  my  foul 
with    flrength    in    full    fuppiy. 

4  All  kings  throughout  the  joyful   earth, 

fnall  give  Thee  praife,   O  LORD, 
When  of  thy  mouth  they  come  to  hear 
the  true    and  faithful    word. 

5  Yea,  they  with  raifed  joy  fhali   ling 

along    JEHOVAH'S   ways; 
For  great    the  glory  of  the    LORD, 
and  great  is    all   his    praife, 

6  The  LORD,  tho'   high,  yet  kindly  looks 

on   thofe  who    lowly    are  ; 
But  thofe  exalted  high  with  pride, 
he  knows  and  keeps  afar. 

7  Although  I  walk  amidil  diilrefs, 

Thee    quick'ning   me    I   have-: 
Thine  hand  mail  imite  my  raging  foes, 
and  thy  right  hand  me  fave. 

8  The  LORD  will  perfect  what  I  want : 

thy  mercy  ever  flands  ; 
JEHOVAH,   O  forfake  thou  not 
the  works  of  thine  own  hand?, 

PSALM   CXXXIX.    A  Pfalm  o/V&ni 

1  f^\  LOR.D,  thou  dofl  me  fearch  and  know  ; 

2  V>^     Thcu  know'ft  my  fitting  down  ; 
My  fifing  up,  and  all  my  thoughts 

to  Thee  far  off  are  known. 

3  Thou  compaiTeft  my  path  and  bed, 

and  knowefl  all  my  ways  : 

4  And  ev'ry  word  that  moves  my  tongue, 

O  LORD,  thine  eye  furveys. 

5  Thou  hall  befet  me   round  afceut, 

and  on    me  laid    thy  hand. 

6  Such  knowledge  wondrous  is  to  me, 

too  high   to  undcritand. 

M  3  7  Where 


24<S         PSALM    CXXXIX. 

*j  Where  fhall  I  from  thy  fpirit  go  ; 

or  from  thy  prefence  fly  ? 
-8  Ifheav'n   I   climb,  lo,  Thou  art  There; 
There  if  in  hell  I  lie. 

9  If  morning  wings  I  take,  and  dwell 

where  turn  oft  fea  coafts  are  ; 
3  0  Ev'n  there  thy  hand  mall  lead  me  on, 

and  thy  right  hand  me  bear. 
I 1   Or   if  I  fay,  the  darknefs  mall 
conceal   me  from  thy  fight ; 
The  darkeft  night  (hail  then  to  Thee 
around  me,  all  be  light. 

j  2  For  darknefs  darkens  not  to  Thee  ; 
bat  night  as    day  mines  clear  : 
Thick  darknefs   and  the  mining  light 
to  Thee  alike  appear. 

[  2   Part.   ] 
23  Becaufe  thou  hail  pofleft  my  reins, 
and  fafely  cover'd  me 
Within  my  tender  mother's  womb  ; 
14.       my  praife  mall  be  to  Thee  : 
For  fearfully   and    Wondroufly 

Thou  didfl  my  frame  compofe  ; 

Tby  works   in  me   are  marvellous  ; 

and  that  my  foul   well  knows. 

15  When   firfl:  I   was   in   fecret   made, 

my  fabilance  Thou  didft  know  ; 
While  1  molt  curioufly  was  wrought, 
as  in  dark  caves  below. 

16  Thine   eyes  my  fhapelefs  fubflance  faw  : 

and  written  in   thy  book 
Were  all  my  members,   tho'  not  made, 
which  after   famion  took. 

17  How   precious    alfo   to    my    foul 

are  thy  fweet    thoughts  become  ? 
O    God,    how   numerous    they   grow, 
how   vail   their  growing   fiira  ? 


18  If 


-PSALM     CXL,  247 

1$  If  I   foould   number    them,    their  fum 
more    than   the  fand   would    be : 
And  (till   whenever  I    awake 
I  prefent   am  with  Thee. 
[   3   P«rt.  ] 

19  O  God,  Thou  furely  wilt  them  flay, 

who  wicked  perfons   are  : 
And  therefore  all  ye  men  of  blood, 
depart  from  me  afar. 

20  For  they  againfl  Thee  wickedly 

fpeak  out  with  tongues  profane  t 
And  they  who  are  thine  enemies, 
take  thy  great  name  in   vain. 

21  JEHOVAH  !    hate  I  not  all    thofe, 

who  hatred   (how  to  Thee  ? 
And    thofe  who  up  againfl   Thee  rife, 
am   I  not   griev'd    to  fee  ? 

22  Yea  I  abhor  them  utterly, 

who   up    againfl  Thee    rife  ; 
And  .all   who  mow  themfelves   thy  foe?, 
I   count  mine   enemies. 

23  O    gracious    God,  I  beg  Thee  make, 

a    thorough   fearch    of  me  ; 
And   know  my  heart,  me  ftriclly  try, 
my   thoughts   within   me  fee. 

24  And   fee   if  any   way  of  fifo  J 

in    me  indulged,  be  ; 
And  in  thy  way  to    endlefs    bills 
for  ever   lead   Thou  n.e. 

PSALM     CXL.     A  Pfalm  of  David, 

1  T     ORD,   fave   me    from  malicious   men, 

I   J     fuch  as  injurious  are; 

2  Who   mifchief  in   their   hearts    contrive, 

and   daily   meet    for  war. 

3  Like  ferpents   they  make  (harp    their   tongues 

for    piercing    calumnies  ; 
Conceiv'd  beneath   their   guileful  lips 
the    adder's    poifon    lies. 

M  4  4  LORD, 

X  So  the  Scpiucgir.t  ai.d  Aralick, 


248  PSALM    CXL. 

4  LORD,   keep    me   from    ungodly   hands, 

from   vi'lent    men   me  fave  ; 
Who   to    o'erthrow   me   in   my  fteps 
a    wicked  purpofe  have. 

5  The  proud  for    me   have  hid  their   fnares, 

and   cords    to  draw    their    net, 
Ti  hich    they  have  fpread  acrofs  my    paths, 
and   traps    for  me   have   fet. 

6  O   LORD,  Thcu    art   my    God,  I    cry'd  ; 

whom   I   love,  chufe   and   fear  ; 
O   to   my  fupplications   voice, 
LORD,    give    a    gracious   enr. 

7  O   Lord  JEHOVAH,  thou    the    flren&th 

of  my  lalvation  wnft ; 
And    in    the   day  of  battle-  Thou 
my   head    fafe  cov'red   hall. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

8  Grant  not  O   LORD,  what  wicked  men 

defire    unrighte-ufly  ; 
Nor  further    Thou    their  ill   defigns, 
left   they    triumph  on    high. 

9  But  for   the   leading    heads   of  thofe 

v.  ho    round   encompafs    me  ; 
Ev'n    with    the    mifchief  of  their   lips 
they  quite    mall  cover'd    be. 

JO  On   them  mall   burning   coals   be   cafl  ; 
and   He  will    make   them   fall, 
Into   deep    pits    and  glowing   fire, 
to   rife   no  more    at    all. 

11  The   man   of  evil   tongue  mail  not 

at   peace   on   earth   arrive  : 
Evil  (hall    chafe   the    \iolent 
and    to   deftruclion  drive. 

12  The   LORD,  I  know,  for  the  opprefs'd 

and   poor    will  judgment    give. 

13  Surely    the   juft  Ihall    praife   thy   name, 

and  in  thy  prefence   live* 

PSALM 


PSALM    CXLI.  249 

PSALM    CXLI.     A  Pjalm  of  David, 

1  /^V   LORD,  to  Thee   I  call  aloud  ! 

\J      O  make  Thou   hafle  to  me, 
And  hearken   to   my  .eajneft   voice, 
now   while  I    cry    to  Thee  ! 

2  O  let  my  pray'r   before  thy   face  * 

as   fragrant  incenfe  rifejf 
The   lifting   of  my   hands   accept 
as    evening  facririce. 

3  0  fet  a   conftant  watch   before 

my   hafty   mouth,  O    LORD  ; 
And  of  my    lips   keep  Thou   the  door, 
againft   each  evil  word. 

4  Let   not   my  heart  incline  to  ill ; 

nor   let  me   ever   mare 
With   evil  men   in  evil    deed3  ; 
nor  on  their  dainties  fare. 

5  Me,   let  the   righteous  kindly  fmite, 

and  that  I'll  kindly  take; 
Their  juft   reproofs   mall   fall   fo  f«aftT 

my  head  they  mall  not  break. 
But  as    an  oil  of  great   efteem, 

I  mall   it  highly  prize ; 
And  in    requital  pray  for  them 

in   their   calamities - 

6  And   when  by  ||  judges  they  fhall  be 

in   ilony   places   call ; 
My  kind   words   they   mail  hear,  and  they 
(hall   fweet  be   to  their  tafte. 

7  About  the  grave's  wide  open  mouthr 

our  bones    are   fcatter'd   round, 
As   wood   which    hewers  cut   and  cleaver 
lies  fcatter'd  on   the  ground. 

8  But  O   JEHOVAH,    Lord,  to   Thee 

directed  are  mine  eyes  : 
My  foul,   O  leave  not  deftitute  : 

on  Thee  my  hope  relies.  ^ 

M  5  9  0 

•f  rfrab,       ||  This  feems  to  be  the  true  Verfion  ;  and  both  th* 
Qbaldte,  and  Gejer,  ip  Ptl,  Synof,  fam  tg  favour  it, 


:jo  PSALM    CXLII. 

9  0   keep  me   from   the  hands   of  thofe 
who  fnares   have    laid  for  me  ; 
And  from  the  fecret  net  of  thofe 
who    work    iniquity. 
ic  Into  the  nets  which    they  have  fet 
mall    the    ungodly  fall ; 
While  I,  for  whom  they   were  prepar'd, 

pafs  *and  efcape  them  all. 
F  S  A  L  M    CXLII.  Mafchil  of  David. 
A  Prayer  when  he  ix>as  in  the  Cave. 
i  T    To  JEHOVAH  with    my  voice 
JL     exprefs'd  aloud   my   cry  ; 
la   fupplications  to  the   LORD, 
I    rais'd    my   voice    on    high. 
1  Before   his  faoe  *  I  poured  out 
my  forrowful  complaint  ; 
Before   his  prefence    I    declar'd 
tfic  grief  I    underwent. 

3  la   me  my   fpirlt  was   o'erwheim'd ;. 

my  path   was    known  to  Thee  : 
And  in  the  way   I  was   to    go 
they   hid    a  fnare   for  me. 

4  On    my    right    hand   I  look'd  and   view'd, 

I   none    would  know  me   there ; 
Alj  human    refuge    failed  me ; 
none  for  my  foul  would  care. 

5  Then  to   the  LORD   I  cry'd,  and  kid  l 

Thou  malt  my  refuge   be, 
And  in    the    land    of   living    ones, 
my  portion  is   in  Ti  - 

6  Beeaufe   I'm  brought  exceeding  low, 

O  lillen   to    my   cry  ; 
Me  from  my  peifecutors   fwe, 
who    ftronger  are  than   I. 

7  From   out    of  prifon    bring    my  foul, 

to   fing  loud  praife    to  Thee  ; 
The   juit  will    circle   me    with   joy, 
when  Tbou  ftialt  favour  me. 

PSAL 


PSALM    CXLIII.  251 

PSALM    CXLIII.  A  Pfalm   of  David. 

1  1       ORD,   hear  my   humble  pray'r  to  Thee, 
J A     and    to   my    cries   attend  ; 

And  in  thy  truth  and  righteoufnefs 
a  gracious   anfwer  fend. 

2  0   with  thy   fervant  enter  not 

in  judgment  me  to  try; 
For  in  thy  fight  no  man  alive 
himfelf  can  juflify, 

3  The    foe  purfues  my  foul,  my   life 

down  to   the   ground   doth  tread, 
In  darknefs  makes   me   dwell  as  thofe 
that  ages  have   been  dead, 

4  Therefore   my  foul  is  overwhelmed 

with  great  perplexity  ; 
My  heart,  of  joy  and  comfort  is 
made  defolate  in  me. 

5  I   calPd  to   mind   the  days   of  eld, 

on   all    thy   works  I   thought  * 
I  meditated  on  the   deeds 

thy  mighty  hands    have   wrought* 

6  And  now   I   earneftly   to  Thee 

reach  mine  out~ffretched  hands  ; 
My  foul  for  Thee  with  ardour  long*, 
like   dry  and  thirrly  lands- 
[  2  Part,  ] 

7  LORD   hear  with  fpeed,  my   fpirit   fails  ; 

hide  not  thy  face  from  me ; 
Left  I  like   thofe  who   in  the  grave 
defcend,   mould   quickly   be. 

8  Let  me  thy  kindnefs   early  hear  ; 

in   Thee   my  hope   I   place  : 
Shew   me  the   way  wherein    to   gof 
my   foul    to  Thee  I  raife. 

9  JEHOVAH,  •  from  mine  enemies 

quickly  deliver  me  : 
To  hide  me  fafe  beneath  thy  wings, 

in  hate  I  %  to  Thee.  JQ  ^  .  fi 


252         PSALM    CXL1V. 

JO  Teach  me   to  do  thy  will,  becaufe 
Thou   art   ray   GOD   indeed : 
Let   thy  good  fpirit  to  the   land 
of  uprightnefs  me  lead. 

si  Yea  for. the  fake  of  thy   great  name, 
O  LORD,   revive  Thou  me  ; 
And  in   thy    right'oufnefs   do  Thou 
my    foul  from  trouble  free. 
12  Yea  in  thy  mercy  Thou    my  foes 
wilt  quite  fupprefs  ;  |)  and  them 
Thou  wilt   deftroy  who  vex  my  foul, 
for  I  thy   fervant  am. 
PSALM  CXLIV.    (AP/alm)  ofVwd.f 
2  f^  Let  JEHOVAH  bleffed  be, 
V_y     who  is  my  rock  of  might ; 
My  hands   he   teaches   how  to  war, 
my    fingers    how  to  fight, 

2  My  goodnefs,   fortrefs,  my   high   tow'r, 

laviour  arjd   fhield  is   He  ; 
In    whom    I    truft,  and   who   fubdues 
my.  people  under  me. 

3  LORD,  what  is   man,   that  Thou   of  hira 

fhouldft  any   knowledge  take ; 
Or  fon   of  man,  that  Thou  of  him 
fo  great  account  dofl  make  ?. 

4  For   man  is  like  to  vanity, 

uncertain  here    to  'flay  ; 
His   days  like  fhades   of  flying  clouds 
pafs  haftily  away. 

5  LORD,  bow  thy  heav'ns  above,  come  down  ;- 

and  with    thy   thunder's   flroke 
Do  Thou  but  orce   the  mountains  touch, 
and    they    will    rife  in  fmoke. 

6  Caft   forth   thy  l-'ghtnings,  and  difperfe 

thine  enemies    around  ; 
And   make  thy  piercirg  arrows  fly, 

and  all  their  pow'r  confound.  7  Thine 

I  Jiufwrtb,        f  Ckaldn—fy  the  Hand  ef  David, 


PSALM     CXLIV.  aj3 

j  Thine   hand  O  fend  Thou  from  above, 
redeem   and  refcue  me ; 
From  mighty  waters,  from   the  hand 
of  ftrangers  fet   me  free. 

8  Whofe  evil  mouths   are  wont  to  fpeak 

falmoodf  and  vanity;  f 
And  whofe  right  hand  a  right  hand  is 
of  fraud  and  perfidy. 

[   2  Part.  ] 

9  0  God,  new  fongs  1*11  ling  to  Thee, 

upon  the  pfaltery  ; 
And  on    a   ten-ftring'd  inftrument 
to  Thee  fing  praife   will  I. 

10  It  is  He  only  who  to  kings 

falvation  doth  afford  ; 
And  who  his  fervant  David  faves 
from  the  deftroying  fword. 

11  Free   me  from  hands  of  ftrangers   fons, 

whofe   mouths   fpeak   vanity, 
And  whofe  right  hand  a  right  hand  is 
of  fraud  and  perfidy. 

2  2  But  let   our  -fons:  in  youthful   age 

as  thriving  plants   appear ; 
Daughters  like  polifh'd   corner  ftones 
which  grace  a  palace  fair* 

3  j  That   to   afford   all   kinds   of  ftores^ 

our  gainers    may    be   fill'd ; 
Our  cattle  thoufands  in  our   ftreetSj 
yea  may   ten   thoufands  yield. 
14  Our  oxen  for  their  labour  ftrong  \ 
no  enemy  invade  ;v 
No   leading   captive  ;  no  complaint 
in  all  our   ftreets   be  made. 
j$  O   happy  people  they,   who  arc 
in  fuch   a  cafe  as  this  ; 
But  far  more  happy  people  they    - 
whofe  God  JEHOVAH  is. 

PSALM 

t  The  Utbrcw  fignifisa  Bttbt 


254  PSALM    CXLV. 

PSALM  CXLV.DAvii>%$(Pfa/nto/)  Praift.% 
i  AyTY   God   and  king,   I'll   Thee  extol, 
_LVA     thy   name   I'll  ever   blefs ; 

2  For  ever  will    I  praife  thy   name 

in  daily  thankfulnefs. 

3  Great  is  the  LORD,   raoft  worthy  praife  ; 

his  greatnefs  fearch .  exceeds  : 

4  Age  mall   to   age   extol   thy   works 

and   mow  thy  mighty  deeds. 

5  Of  thy  tranfcendent  comelinefs,* 

thy   glory,   majefty,  || 
And  of  thy  admirable  works 
with    pleafure  fpeak   will  I. 

6  Yea,   they  mall  of  thy   mighty  works 

difcourfe,  which    dreadful  are  ; 
And  I  will  thy  magnificence 
to   all   the   world   declare. 

7  The  mem'ry  of  thy  goodnefs   great 

they  largely  mail   exprefs  ; 
And   fhall  in   joyful   hymns  of  praife, 
fing   of  thy   right'oufnefs. 
[  2  Part.   ] 

8  Mod  gracious  our  JEHOVAH  is, 

moll  merciful  is  He  ; 
Slow   is    to   anger,   and   He   is 
great   in   benignity. 

9  The  LORD   is  good,  and  ev'n  to   all 

his   goodnefs    does    appear  ; 
And  over    all   his  works   behold 
his   tender  mercies  are. 

10  LORD,  all  thy  works  mew  forth  thy  praife  J 

and   Thee   thy  faints    fhall   blefs : 

11  Shall    of  thy  kingdom's   glory   fpeak, 

and  thy  great  power   exprefs. 
J  2  That  fo  the  fons    of  men  abroad 
thy  mighty   a<5ls  may   know  ; 
And  that  thy   kingdom's  majelry 

and  glory  they  may  fhow.  13  Thy 

%  Cbaldee — A  Hymn  of  David. 
:  y  Few  of  the  Authors  of  the  metrical  Verfions  feein  to  havs 
Jook'd  ea  this  pQblg  Ywfc  jrj  fo  QriginaU 


PSALM    CXLVI.  25s 

13  Thy  kingdom   firm   eftablifh'd   is, 

never  to  know  an  end  ; 
And  thy   fupreme  dominion  {hall 
through   ev'ry  age  extend. 

[  3  P*rt.  ] 

14  Thofe  who  juft  ready   are   to  fall, 

JEHOVAH  doth  fuftain  ; 
And  thofe   he  fees  are   bowed  down 
He  raifes  up   again. 

15  All  eyes  wait  on  Him,  and  their  food 

He  in  fit  feafon  gives  : 

16  His  open   hand  fills   the   defire 

ef  ev'ry   thing  that   lives. 

17  The   LORD   is  juft  Tn  all  his  ways, 

his   works   are  holy   all : 

18  He's  near  to  all  who  call  on   Him, 

in   truth    that   on  him    call. 

19  He   will  of  them   who   Him   revere, 

the  juft  defire  fulfil  ; 
And  He  will  hear  their   cry   to  Him, 
and    fave  them  then  He  will. 

20  All  who  the   LORD  fincerely  love 

his   fafe-guard   (hall  enjoy  ; 
But  He   all   thofe   who  wicked   are 
will   utterly  deftroy. 

21  My  mouth   the  praifes    of  the  LORD 

mall  gratefully  exprefs  : 
And   let  all  flefli   his   holy   name 
ever   and  ever  blefs. 

PSALM    CXLVL 

1  QIng   Hallelujah  !  *  praife  the  LORD; 

2  O  I'll    praife   JEHOVAH    all  my   days.; 
O  thou  my  foul  !    I'll  to   my  God, 
While  I  a   being  have,   fing   praife. 

3  Truft   not  in    princes,  nor   mens  fons, 
Who  can   no  fuccour  to  you  fend  ; 

4  Their  breath  expires,  to  earth  they  turn, 
Aad  all  their  thoughts  that  moment  end. 

50 


iS6         PSALM   CXLVII. 

5  O  blefs'd  is  he  who  hath  the  God 
Of  Jacob  for  his  c  nftant  aid ; 
Whofe   lively   confidence  upon 
The    LORD   his    God   is   firmly  flay'd. 

6  Who   heav'n,   earth,  fea,  all    in   them  made  ; 
Who  ever   doth  his    truth    make  good  ; 

j  Who   for  th'   opprefTed  judgment    does  j 
And  kindly   gives  the  hungry   food. 

8  JEHOVAH   fets   the  pris'ners  freer 
JEHOVAH   fight   gives  to  the  blind. 
The   LORD   lifts   up   the  bowed  down, 
The   LORD  is    to  the    righteous  kind, 

9  The  LORD   the  ftrangers   doth    preferve, 
The  widows  and*  the  orphans   raife  ;  * 
But  He   of  them  who   wicked   are 
Intirely   overthrows  the   ways. 

10  The  LORD  fhall  reign  for  evermore  r 
Thy   mighty  God,  O   Zion,   He 
To  generations  all  (hall  reign  : 
Therefore  fing  Hallelujah,  #  ye. 

PSALM    CXLVII. 

1   OIng  Hallelujah  :  *  for  'tis  good 
l3     praife  to  our  God  to  fing  ; 
For   the  employment  is  moft  fweet, 
and  praife   a  comely   thing, 
a  The  LORD    Jerufalem  rebuilds, 
though  level'd   with  the   ground;. 
And   Ifr'el  gathers,   tho'  difpers'd 
through   all  the  nations  round. 

3  The  broken   hearted   ones   He  heals, 

binds  up  their  breaches   all : 

4  The  numbers  of  the   ftars    He   tells, 

and  each  by  name   dotl>    call. 

5  Great  is  our  Lordy  and  great  in   pow'r; 

his   knowledge   has    no    bound : 

6  The   LORD   lifts  up   the  meek  j    but  cafls 

the  wicked  to  the  ground. 

7  With 


PSALM    CXLVII.  257 

7  With  thankfulnefs  then  to  the  LORD 

your  chearful   voices  raife  : 
And  on   the   harp   to    Him    our    God, 
ling    grateful    hymns    of  praife. 

8  Who  over-fpreads  with  clouds  the  Iky; 

who  for  the   earth    below 
Prepares  his    rain,    and   makes   the  grafs 
upon    the   mountains  grow. 

9  To   all    the    beafts    of  fields   and  woods 

He  gives  a  full  fupply  ; 
Yea   fees  and  hears  the  ravens   young,  ; 
and   feeds    them  when   they   cry, 

10  In   horfes   ftrength  f  or    fortitude,  -f 

is   none   of  his   delight  ; 
Nor  in   the   fprightly  limbs  cf  men, 
moil   active  in   the   fight. 

11  The  LORD  in   all  who  fear   him   takes 

a  plea'fure  very   great  ; 
And   in  all   thofe   who  humbly   hope 
and  on  his  mercy  wait. 
[   2    Pavt.  ] 

12  The  LORD  praife,  O  Jerufalem, 

thy  God,    O    Zion    praife ; 

13  Who    mlde   thy   gates   and   bars  fo   flrongj, 

and  blefs'd   in    thee  thy   race. 

14  Who   caafes  in  thy  borders    peace; 

thy  flore  fo  rich  to  be, 
He  gives    the   finefl   flower  of  wheat 
a  full    fupply  to   thee. 

15  He   forth  en   earth   fends  his   decree, 

his  word  is   fwiftly   pair. 

16  He    gives  the   fnow   like   wool,  and  doth 

hoar  froft  as  allies   caft. 

17  His  ice   in  hail,  like  morfels    down,. 

He  calls  as   with  his    hand  : 
Before  the  Iharpnefs  of  his   cold 
who  can  endure  to  fland  ? 

18  Bat 
f  The  Hebrew  fignines  Both, 


258         PSALM    CXLVII. 

iS  But  then    fends   forth   his   mighty   word, 
bids  his  warm    wind   to    blow, 
Which  fjon    diffolves    the  parts    congeal'd 
and    makes    the  waters   flow. 

19  To   Jac^b    He,    as    his    belov'd, 

his   heav'nly  word  hath  mown  : 
His  ftatiites  and   his  judgments  He 
to  jfr'el   hath  made   known. 

20  With    none    of  all   the    nations    round 

fo    kindly  dealt   hath   He  : 
For    they    frs  judgments  have   not    kndwn  ; 
ling  Hallelujah,*  ye. 

[   H.ilUujab   l\Utre.   ] 
1  T     (DUD  Hallelujah  *  fing; 
L.J     for  to   our   God  'tis    meet; 
Praife    is    a  comely   thing, 
and   is    exceeding   fweet. 
^  The   LORD   doth  rear 

Jerufalem, 
and  gather   them 
That  outcafts  are. 

3  The    broke  in    heart   he  heals, 

binds    up   their  breaches   all; 

4  The   liars   by   number   tells, 

and  each   by  name  doth  call. 
15  Our    Lord  we   blefs, 

is  great  in  might, 
and   infinite 
In    wifdom    is. 

6  The    LORD   the  meek   doth   raife 

the  proud  brings  to  the  ground  : 

7  O  to  the  LORD  fing   praife, 

on    harps    our  God's    praife   found : 

8  Who  clouds   the   ikies, 

rains    on    the    ground; 
on.  mountains   round 
Makes  grafs  to  rife. 

9  Ev'i 


PSALM    CXLVIII.        2S9 

9  Ev'n   beafls    and   ravens   young 

He  feeds   whene'er    they   call : 
10  In   horfe  or  foot-men   ftrong 

takes    no   delight  at   all  : 
ii  The  LORD   doth  place 

His  pleafure  where 
men  with  his  fear 
Hope   in  his   grace. 

12  Salem  and    Zion  praife 

the  LCRD   your  God  in  fong; 

13  Who  ble/Tes  your  lov'd  race 

and   makes   your  gates  fo  ftrong. 
34         Thy  borders  -Hills 

with  peace  10   fweet  : 
with    finefr.   wheat 
Thy  ftores  He  fills. 

15  On   eaith  his  orders   go 

his   word  is    fwiftly   pail  : 

16  Like   wool    doth  give   the  fnow, 

hoar-froft   as    allies    call. 

17  His   ice   doth  fend 

like   morfels   too : 
in   his    cold   who 
Can   iteady   Hand  ? 

18  His   word  fends,  and  them    thaws  j 

blows  winds,  and   water  flows  : 

19  Jacob  his    word,   his   laws 

and   judgment    Ifr'el   fliows  : 

20  So  done  hath   He 

to  nations  none 
his  judgments  fliownJ 
J  AH,  then  praife  ye.  f        {\  Hallelujah-) 
P  S  A  LM     CXLVIII. 

1  QING  Hallelujah  *:  praife  the  LORD, 
v3      ev'n   from  the  heav'ns  on   high  : 

Ye   in    the   heights  his   praife  refound 
above   the   itarry  iky. 

2  O   all  his  angels,   gladly  join 

your   voices  Him    to  praife, 
.And  all  ye  heav'nly  holts  confpire 
his  glorious  name  to  raife.  3  Praife 


s6o         PSALM    CXLVIII. 

3  Praife  Him   ye   mining  fun  and  moon, 

that   rule    the   day  and    night  : 
Praife   Him  in   all    your    various   orbs, 
ye  glitt'ring  ftars  of  light. 

4  Praife  Him   ye  heav'ns   of  heav'ns,  which  all 

the   reft   in  height   exceed ; 

And  all  ye  wat'ry   clouds  above 

the   airy    heav'ns    out-fpiead. 

5  0   let   them    all    confpire    to    praife 

JEHOVAH'S   glorious    name  : 
For    He  commanded,  and  at  once 
they  into  being  came. 

6  He  hath  eflabliih'd  each  of  them 

for  ever  in  it's  place  : 
And  he  hath  made  a  firm  decree, 
which  none    mall   ever  pafs. 
[  2   Part.  J 

7  O  praife  JEHOVAH  from  the   earth, 

ye    dragons,  deeps   and  feas  ; 

8  Fire,  hail,  fnow,  vapour,  ftormy  wind  j 

fulfilling   his    decrees. 

9  All  mountains,  hills,  and  fruitful  trees ; 

and   all  ye    cedars   high  : 

10  Wild  hearts,  all  cattle,  creeping  things, 

and   all    ye    fowls    that   fly. 

1 1  Kings  and   all  people  on  the  earth, 

princes,  earth's    judges  all  ; 

12  Young  men   and  maidens  ev'ry   where, 

old  men    and   children  fmall. 

13  Let   all   the   LORD's    name   praife,   becaufe 

his    name    alone,  on    high 
Exalted   is ;  his    glory   {nines 
above    the   earth   and   fky. 

J  4  His   people's    Horn,  f    the  praife   of  all 
.        bis    faints,  exalt  will   He  ; 

Ev'n  Ifr'el's   Seed  f  to   Him   moft  near, 
fingHAHELujAH,*ye.  ^UalUlujah 

■J-  It  may  cfpecially  look   to  the  Mess  I  AH.    LuL   J,   69* 

Gal.  iii.  16. 


PSALM     CXLVIII.         261 

[  Hallelujah  Metre.  ] 

1  T     OUD  Hallelujah  *  fing 

1    j     from  heav'n  JEHOVAH  praife 
On    high  J   his  honours   ring, 
and  with  the  highefl  lays.  % 

2  Ye   angels  lead  ; 

and    all    his    hofls 
round   heav'ns   wide   coafls 
His   glory   fpread. 

3  Praife   Him  ye  fun   and    moon, 

to  whom  ye  owe  your  light : 
Praife  Him   ye    ftars,  who    run 
your  glitt'ring    courfe  by  night  ; 

4  His  praife  declare 

ye   heav'ns   on  high, 
ye    clouds    that   fly 
On    fluent   air. 

5  Let  all  in  this  accord 

to  praife   JEHOVAH's  name ; 
For   He  but  fpake   the   word, 
and  they  from  nothing  came  : 

6  And  from  the  place 

where  fix'd  they   be 
by  his  decree 
They  cannot  pal's. 
[  2  Part.  ] 

7  On  earth  all  praife   the  LORD  ; 

ye    dragons   from   your  caves ; 
And  deeps  that  none  can  ford, 
with   all    your  roaring  waves ; 

8  Fire,   hail    and   fnow  ; 

and    mifty    air  ; 
and   florms    that   where 
He  bids    them,  blow. 

9  All    hills    and   mountains  high, 

trees   that    with    fruit  are    crown'd, 
Cedars   that   touch   the  fky; 
10         wild   beafts   that   ran^e   around; 

AD 

X  The  Ihbvevi  including  Both, 


i6z  PSALM    CXLIX. 

All  cattle   tame, 

things    low,    and    high, 
that  creep,  that    fly, 
His   praife   proclaim. 
X  i  Kings   who  on    earth   prefide, 
and   all    of  meaner   birth ; 
Princes    who   nations    guide, 
and  judges    of  the   earth  ; 

12  Ye  young  men  ftrong, 

and    virgins    fair, 
heads   with   grey  hair, 
And  children  young. 

13  Let   all   JEHOVAH's   name 

with   praifes    celebrate  ; 
His   name    alone  proclaim 
as    excellent   and   great : 
His  glories  far 
above   earth  rife, 
yea  utmoft  /kies, 
And   ev'ry  flar. 

14  Yea  He  on  high  doth  raife 

His  people's   horn   of  might, 
And    thus   infpires    with  praife 
His   faints,    his  foul's  delight. 
Blefs'd   Ifi'eis  race, 
a   people   near 
and  to  him   dear  : 
To  JAH  fing  praife.  f       (f  Hallelujah.) 

PSALM    CXLIX. 
S   QING   Hallelujah*:  to  the  LORD, 
k3     a  new  fong  to  Him   fiflg; 

In  the  afiembly   of  his    faints, 

make    ye  his   praifes   ring. 
2  Let  Ifr'el  in   his  makers  J  be 

exceeding    gl  id  and    ling  : 
And  all   who  Zion's   childrei   are, 

exult  J!  in   Him   their  king  g  O 

X  So  the  Hebrew — in  the  Fh.ual  Number. 
|j  i.e.    Rejoice   exceedingly:     S--    the   I!      evu,   Se^tmgir.t, 
ancien:  Lath,  Ckaldee,  <.    . 


PSALM    CXLIX.  263 

3  O   let  them  with  a  leaping  *  joy 
give  praifes  to  his    name ; 
The  harp    and  timbrel  join   and  fing, 
aloud    his    praife  proclaim. 
4.  For  in   his  people   whom    He  chofe 
JEHOVAH  pleafure  takes; 
And   with  falvation   all   the  meek 
molt  beautiful    He   makes. 

5  In   glory  let   his  holy   ones 

triumphantly    rejoice  ; 
And    ev'n   aloud   upon  their   beds 
in   fongs   lift  up   their   voice. 

6  Let  the   high    praifes  of  our    God 

their  mouths    with   gladnefs   yield  ; 
And  let  a   two-edg'd  fword  be  put 
into  their  hands  to   wield. 

7  Vengeance   and  judgments   to   difpenfe 

among   the  heathen    lands  ; 

8  To  bind  their   haughty   kings  in  chains, 

and   peers  with   iron   bands. 

9  The  judgment   written    in   his  word 

juflly   on    them  to  bring  : 
This    honour  is   for  all   the  faints  : 
then   Hallelujah    #  fing. 

[   Six  Line  Long  Metre.  ] 

1  QING    Hallelujah    *  to    the   LORD; 
>3   Let   Kim    for    ever    be   ador'd  : 

Amidil  the    faints    affembled  fing 
New   fongs  of  praife   for  mercies   new  ^ 

2  Joy    in    his   maker,    Ifr'el    fhew ; 

And    Sion    triumph  in   their   King. 

3  Exult  in  Him   ye   facred   Quire,  f 
With    the  fweet   timbrel    and    the    lyre  % 

Sing  forth   and  found    aloud   his    praife. 

4  The   LORD   doth   in  his  flock    delight, 
Will   fave   with    his   refiftlefs   might 

The  meek,   and   them  to  honour    raife. 

5  Triumph 
\  i.  e,-~ a  Body  of  Singers.        J  i.  e.  the  Harp, 


264  PSALM    CL. 

5  Triumph  ye   faints  with  cheerful  voice, 
With   fhouts   for    glory  gain'd   rejoice, 

And  on   your   beds    exprefs   your  joy  : 

6  To  God  your  mouths  high   praifes  yield, 
A   two   edg'd   fword  let  your  hands  wield, 

7  His  foes  and  heathen  to   deflroy. 

8  To    bind  their  haughty  kings  in  chains, 
In  iron-bands    their  noble  trains  ; 

On   them  his   wrath  decreed    to   pour. 

9  The  faints    fliall  this   great   honour   have 
To    quell    his    foes    and    Zion  fave. 

Sing   Hallelujah  *  evermore. 

PSALM    CL. 

1  QJING  Hallelujah  !   *   praife  ye  God 
*3     Within     his   place   of  fandtity ; 
Praife   Him    all   round  the   firmament, 
Which  mows    his    wondrous  pow'r  on   high. 

2  O  praife   Him  for   his   mighty    deeds  : 
Praife   for  his   greatnefs  without  bound, 
His   excellencies  infinite,  (j 

3  Praife   Him   with   trumpets  lofty  found. 

Praife   with    the    pleafant    pfaltery, 
And    with  the  harp's   melodious   noife  : 

4  Piaife    Him    with  timbrel's    virgin    airs, 
And  pipes    exciting  leaps  of  joys  : 
With    harpficords    and  organs    praife : 

5  Praife,  praife,  with   cymbals    loud  and  high, 

6  Praife   Jah,   O  ev'ry    living  thing: 
And  Hallelujah  *  fhout  for  joy. 

|  The  Hebrew  literal! y  fignifying  the  Multitude  ofhh  Greatnefs  j 
ard  io  the  Septuagint,  Syriack,  ancient  Latin,  Chaldee, 
Slrabick,  and  Mont  anus  ;  and  as  Greatnefs  applied  to  God 
extends  wall  his  Attributes,  thefe  Ideas  are  doubtlefs  here 
comprized. 

■    . 

The 


(    ^5    ) 

The  Song  of  Songs,  which  is  Solomon'?. 

Being  Poetical  Dialogues,  in  the  mofi  admirable  Strains,  between 
the  Church  and  CHRIST,  ivbicb  the  ancient  Jevvifti  Church, 
to  whom  the  infpircd  Apofile  Paul  tells  us  were  committed 
[/'.  e.  by  her  infpired  Prophets']  the  Oracles  of  God,  received 
and  carefully  kepi,  with  the  other  Scripture  of  the  O.'dTeftament ; 
and  the  fams  Apofile  ajfures  us,  That  all  Saij'ture  if  given  by 
Infpiration  of  God,  and  is  profitable  for  Doctrine,  &c.  And 
in  this  infpired  Song  the  Pious  and  Learned  of  all  Ages  have 
viewed  King  Solomon  as  the  Typical  Messiah,  and  Kinr 
Pharoah'j  Daughter,  the  mofi  beautiful  and  accomplifn  d  Prir.ccfs 
of  her  Age,  as  a  lively  Type  of  the  Church  of  the  Messiah, 
Ifraelitifh  Then,  and  Chriftian  Now  :  Pfalm  xlv.  being  am 
happy  Key  to  This  Divine  Treafury — full  of  the  mofi  pure, 
tender  and  fublime  Hints,  which  holy  Souls  have  bad  a  mofi 
grateful  Relijh  of,  in  all  Ages,  See  I  King.  iv.  32.  Ifai.  liv.  5. 
Ixii.  4,  5.  Jer.  ii.  2,  3.  Hof.  li.  7.  16 — 20.  Mat.  ix.  15. 
Mark  ii.  19,20.  Luke  v.  34,  35.  Joh.  iii.  29.  j}  2  Cor,  xi.  2, 
Eph.  v.  29—32,    Rev.  xix.  7—9.   xxi.  2, 

CHAP.     I. 
[The   Church.] 

2  ET  Him  with   kiiTes   of  his   mouth, 

be    pleafed   me  to  kifs  :     ([) 
Jm,,  J   For  better  than    the    choiceft  wine 
thy   loving  kindnefs   is. 

3  Thy  name  as  ointment  poured  out  :  , 

for  that    moft  fragrant  fmeJl 
Of  thy  choice   ointments   (2)   therefore  dd 
the  virgins  (3)   love  Thee   well. 

4.  O    draw    Thou   me,    and     readily 
we   will   run    after   Thee  : 
Into    his  fecret   chambers   hath 
the  King  conducted   me.  (4.) 
We   will   be    glad,    and  will    in  Thee 

exceedingly    delight  ; 
Thy   love   remember   more   than  wine  : 
love  Thee   do  the    upright. 

N  5  O 

(i)  i.  e.  Give  me  the  kind  Expreffions  of  his  peculiar  and  dear 
Affection  :  as  He  dc«sin  ver.  8.  11.  and  other  Placer.  (2)  Thy 
Names,  Endowments,  Graces,  Offices,  Word,  Ordinances, 
-Titles,  influences,  Benefits.  (3)  i.e.  Pure  and  holy  Souls! 
(4)  i.  e.  Led  me  into  retired,  holy,  a&d  intimate  Communion 
with  Hsm, 


2  66  Solomon's    SONG. 

5  O   daughters  of  Jerufalem  ! 

I'm  black  ;  and  yet  you  own 
I'm  comely  as  the   Kedar  tents, 
and    beds  (5)    of  Solomon. 

6  Becaufe    I  blackifh   am,  therefore 

upon    me  look  not    ye  ; 
Becaufe   the  Tun  with  fcorching  beams 

has  looked  fierce  on  me.  (6) 
My  mother's   fons   difplcas'd  with   me,  (7) 

vineyards   did  me  aflign 
To   keep  :  whereas   I  fcarce   could  keep 

the   vineyard   fingly   mine.  (8) 
j  Tell  me  Thou   whom  my   foul  does  love 

where   Thou   thy   feed   doft  take  ; 
And  where  at   noon-time  Thou  thy  flock 

to  reft  doft  kindly   make. 
For  wherefore  fhould  I  be  as  one, 

who  vailed,  turns  away 
From   thy  companions  (9)   and  their  flocks, 

and  fadly  goes   aftray  ? 

[  CHRIST.  ] 

8  Moft  fair  of  women,  know'ft  thou   not  ? 

then  by   the  flock-fteps  go, 
Till  to  the  fhepherds  tents    (10)    you  come: 
and  feed   thy  kids  there  too. 

9  To  troops   (11)  in  Pharaoh's   chariots  I 

will  Thee   my   love   compare. 
$0  Thy  neck  with  chains  ;  with  rows  of  gems 

thy  comely  cheeks  appear.  1 1  FY  t 

(5)  If  the  Hebrew  ftgnifies  Curtains  ;  then,  by  a  ufual  Figure, 
»r  feems  to  mean,  the  beautiful  Coach*Beds  of  Solomon,  fome- 
what  in  the  Form  of  Tents,  with  all  their  Curtains,  Canopies, 
end  ether  Furniture,  from  Top  to  Bottom  ;  and  tho'  /he  is  ^ 
Hack  with  Taints  of  Sin,  yet  comely  in  her  Graces.  (6)  The 
Glory  of  this  lower  World,  with  it's  blackening  Influence,  tko* 
ix  could  have  no  fuch  Influence  on  Christ,  Mat.  iv.  8 — 11. ' 
(7)  For  my  profefling  the  true  and  pure  Religion.  (8)  They 
made  me  promote  their  earthly  Delights,  which  are  their 
}rmeyards  j  when  I  could  not  duly  keep  my  own  Vineyard, 
which  is  my  Heart,  Prov.  iv.  23.  (9)  Thy  faithful  Under- 
{Shepherds.  (10)  The  Places  of  pure  and  perfect  Worfhip. 
j[n)  Beautiful  for  Shapes,  Colours,  Ornaments,  Livclinefs, 
Air  ajid  Majefty, 


■Sobwnh-   SONG.  a6j 

21   [Yet  that   thou  mayft   be  comelier   ffcill, 
and   as   becoming   mine,] 
We'U    make  thee   ornaments    of  gold, 
with  filver  fpangles   fhine.  (12) 
[  The   Church.  ] 

12  While   the  King  at  his   table   fits 

my   fpikenard-ointment   (13)   fends 
And  fpreads   its  fragrance   all  around, 
to  pleafe  Him  and   his  friends. 

13  As   a  frefh    bunch  of  fragrant  myrrh, 

is   my  belov'd    to   me  ; 
Which   conitantly  between   my  breafts 

fhall   my  companion  be.  j 

[  CHRIST.  ] 

14  As    a   ripe  camphire-clufler  in 

Engedi's  vineyard   grown;  (14) 
So   mf.  beloved  is    to  me 
a  perfect,   lovely   one. 

15  Lo   fair,   my  Love,  lo   fair  art  Thou  ! 

thine  eyes   as    doves   eyes  are  : 

16  Lo  fair  tranfcendently  Thou  art,  (15) 

and   fweet  as   Thou   art  fair  1  \ 

Our  bed  of  reft   is  richly   green, 
nfoft  grateful  to  the   eyes  :    (16) 

1 7  Our  houfes  *  beams  of  cedar  are* 

of  firr  our  galleries.  (17) 

N  2  CHA  P; 

(12)  Notwithstanding  afl  youf  prefent  Ornaments,  Gifts  and. 
Graces;  We  (my  Father,  J,  and  the  Holy  Spirit) 
will  make  you  ftill  more  glorious.  (13)  i.  e.  an  odoriferous 
Ointment  made  of  Spikenard,  a  fragrant  Root  of  India  :  and 
may  fignify  thje  Graces  of  her  Heart  flowing  forth  in  her  Lips, 
Countenance,  Behaviour,  gracious  Exercifes,Speeches,  Prayers, 
Thanks,  Praifes,  &c.  (14)  It  feems  to  be  a  Clufler  of  the 
fincft  Fruit,  for  Beaaty,  Tafte  and  Flavour,  in  the  exceeding 
.rich  Vineyards  of  Engtdi.  ( 1 5)  The  Hebrew  ftrongly  implies 
■all  This.  (16)  As  Green'n  aColourvery  pleafing  to  the  Eyes, 
(o  our  retired  Place  of  holy  Reft  and  Communion  is  efpecially 
-delightful.  (17)  Red  Cedar  and  White  Firry  or  Cyprefs ;  botfe 
fif  them  odoriferous,  uncorrupt,  and  beautiful  :  and  may  mean 
the  Divine  Jmftitutiont  in  the  Places  of  Publick  Worfhip, 


268  Solomon's    SONG. 

CHAP.    II. 
[  CHRIST.  ] 

1  II"  Sharon's  rofe,  and  lilly  am, 
X     which  in  the  valley  grows  : 

2  As  lillies  among  thorns,  my  Love 

among  the  daughters  mows. 
[  The  Church.  ] 

3  As  th'  apple-tree  among  the  woods, 

which  fruit  moft   beauteous  bears  ; 
So  my  moft  dear   beloved  one 

among   the  Ions  appears  : 
I  with  great   joy   fat  in  his  made; 

his  fruit    moft  fweet   did   prove  : 

4  He  brought  me  to  his  banquet-houfe  ; 

his   banner   o'er    me   love. 

5  With  flaggons  ftay,  with  apples  cheer, 

for  faint  with  love  am   I. 

6  Under  my    head  his    left  hand   doth, 

his   right  above  me   lie.  (r) 
•j  O  daughters  of  Jerufalem, 

wake  not  my  Love,  nor  raife, 
By   roes  and   hinds    of  all  the   fields, 
I  charge  you,  tiil  He  pleafe. 

8  O  'tis  the  voice  of  my  Belov'd  ! 
upon   the  mountains    He, 
As    roes    or   fawns   bound   o'er   the  hills, 
fo   leaping   comes,   I   fee  ! 
€)  But  now   behind  our   wall   He  ftands, 
and  thro*  the  window  views  ? 
I   fee    Him    thro'  the    Latices  ;  (2)* 
how  lovelily   He  mews  ! 

10  Then  my  Beloved  call'd  to  me, 
to  me    did  kindly  fay ; 

[  CHRIST  J 
'  A  rife  my   Love,   my    faireft   one, 

e  make  hafte  and  come  away  !  1 1  *  For 

(1)  5.  e.  He  nrhfJds  and  pro'e&s  me  as  his  own,  (2)  Through 
his  Woro  aid  Otdinances,  by  divine  Illumination,  *nd  the 
open  Eye  or  Faith, 


Solomon's    SONG.  269 

1 1  '  For   lo  the  winter  now  is  paft, 

'  the  rain  entirely  gone  : 

12  ■  The  flow'rs   appear  .all  o'er   the   earth, 

*  the   finging   birds    come  on  ! 

•  The  turtle's  foft    and   melting  voice 

■  thro*   all  the  land  I   hear : 

13  «  The   fig-tree,  fee,  puts    forth   her   figs; 

'  the  young  and   green   appear  ! 

•  The  vines  with  their  young  tender  grapes 

*  around  perfume   the   air:  (3) 

'  Arife    my   love,  my   faireft  one  ; 

*  come,   ftay  no  longer  there  V 


14  O  Thou   my  dove,  in  clefts  of  rocks, 

in    fecret  ftairs  !   let  me 
Hear   thy  fweet  voice  !    thy   comely  face. 
O   let    me   gladly   fee  !   (4) 

[   The  Church.  ] 

15  The  foxes   take  for    us  away, 

the   little  foxes  (5)   there, 
Who  fpoil  the  vines  ;  and  then  the  vines 
their    tender  grapes    will   bear. 

16  My  moft  beloved  one  is   mine3 

and  I    am  wholly  his  : 

Among   the  li'Jies    of  the  vales 

his  pleafant  feeding  is.  (6) 

Vj  Till   the   day   break,  and   fiiades   ily   hence* 

turn    my  Belov'd   to   me  ; 

And  like  a   roe   or  fawn  upon 

the   Bether  mountains   be  ! 

N  3  CHAP, 

(3)  A  fpring-like  Revival  of  lively  and  pure  Religion.  (4)  Who 
hides  herfelf  from  meeting  Him  in  iome  publick  Ordinances,. 
thro'  Shame  for  her  Unfitnefs.  (5)  Little,  but  fubtil,  lurking 
and  deceitful  Enemies  j  who  greatly  binder  the  flourifhing  of 
Truth  and  Holicefs  in  the  Vineyards  or  Churches  of  ChrirV 
(6)  He  more  delights  in  innocent  2nd  holy  Souls,  than  eve* 
any  dJd.i.n  the  whiuft  and  fv.eeteft  Liilies  of  the  ValJey. 


z-jo  Solomon's    SONG. 

CHAP.    in. 

[  The  Church.  ] 
*  T)Y  night   as    on   my  bed   I   lay,. 
jD     when    I  awak'd,  I    fought 
}or    the   Beloved   of  my  foul; 

I   fought,  but  found  Him  not  !   (i) 

2  Now   I'll   arile,   and   in    the   ftreets, 

and  all    broad   places    round, 
Him'  I  will   feek  whom  my  foul  loves  : 
I   fought,    but    had    not    found. 

3  The  watchmen,  as  I  went  about 

the  city,,   met   with    me  ; 
Of  them  I   afk'd;   Him   whom   my  foul- 
molt  loves,   G  did  you  fee  ? 

4  But   'twas    a   very  little   fpace 

that   I  from   them   had   pAil, 
E'er   Him  whom  my   foul  loves    I  foun^,. 
I  feiz'd  and  held  Him  fail. 

Nor  would    I   let   Him  go    till  I 

had  brought  Him  in   to  fee 
M.y.  mother's  houfe,   her   chamber  too, 

who  had   conceived  me.. 

5  O    daughters    of  Jerufafem, 

wake  not.  my  Love,  nor   raife  ; 
By  roes    and    hinds   of  all  the    fields*. 
I  charge  you,  till  He  pleafe. 
[  Daughters  of  Jerufalem.  J 

6  Who's  me  *  that   from  the  defart  comes,  (2^ 

as  incenfe- pillars  rife  ? 
Perfura'd   with    myrrh  and   frankihcenfe, 
and    powders    ail   of  fpice  r  (3) 

7  Behold   the  ftately  bed    of  reft 

which   is    King   Solomon's, 
And  round  it  threefcore  valiant  men 
of  Ifr'el's  valiant  fons. 

8  So 

ft)  When  I  had  indulged  myfelf  in  earthly  Eafe  and  NegUgerxre. 

(2)  The  Defart  was  in  her  way  from  Egypt  to  the  Holy  Land, 

(3)  Syriaik—  with  all  the  fine  Powders  of  Sp  ices, 


Solomon**    SONG.  2ft 

8  So   dreadful  to  their   enemies, 

all    waniours   fkill'd  in    fight  ; 
Their  ready   fwords  girt  on    their  thighs 
becaufe   of  fear   by  night. 

9  Of  wood   of  Lebanon   the   King 

a  ftately  couch   has  made  :  (4) 

10  It's   pillars   are   of  filver  form'd, 

gold   for   it's   bottom  laid*  3 

Of  purple   is    the   canopy, 

arch'd   over   all   above. 
For  daughters   of  Jerufalem', 

the  midft  is  fpread  with  love. 

11  O  Zion'?  daughters,  go  ye  "forth,- 

with   rais'd   delight  behold 
King  Solomon   aJl  glorious    with 
his  diadem   of  gold  : 

The  crown  which  on  his  nuptial  day 

his  mother  on  him  plac'd  ; 
The  day  when  gladnefs  flls  his  heart, 

and  all  around   are  blefs'd, 

CHAP.     IV, 
I  CHRIST.  ] 
j  T     O  fair  thou  art,  lo  fair  my  Love  V 
I    J     doves-eyes  in   thy  locks  are  ; 
Thy  hair  like  flocks  of  goats  that  on 
mount  Gilead   high  appear. 

2  Thy  teeth  are  like  the  whit'ned  flock 

which  from  the  warning  rofe,  * 
New  morn,  *  and  ev'ry  one  bear  twins,* 
and  none  without  them  goes. 

3  Thy  lips  are  like  a  fcarlet  thread, 

whence  graceful  accents  flow  : 

Within    thy  locks,  thy   temples  like 

pomgranates  in  their   blow.  (1) 

N  4  4  Thyr 

(4)  A  ftately  Couch  rais'd  on  Pilars  with  an  arched  Canopy 

fpreadng-over  it. 
(1)  So  the  Hebrew  may  fignify  according  to  Cajlelhs^ 


272  Solomon's     SONG. 

4  Thy   neck  like  David's  tow'r   appears, 

built    for    a  magazine  ; 
Wherein    a   thoufand   bucklers  hang, 
all    fhields    of  mighty    men. 

5  Thy   two  fair  breafls   are  like   two  fawns, 

twins    of  a  roe,   who  feed 
Among   the  lillies   of  the   vale; 
but   thine  in   charms   exceed. 
$  Till    morning's   fragrant  breath   mall   rife,  * 
and  all  the  fhades  fly  hence, 
I'll    get   me    to   the   mount  of  myrrh, 
and    hill  of  frankincenfe. 
7  All   fair   thou   art,  my   lovely    one, 

there   is    no    fpot   in   thee  ! 
S  My  fpoufe,  O  come  from  Lebanon, 
from    Lebanon   with   Me  ! 
Look   from   the    top  of  Amana, 

from   Shenir's   fummit  high  ; 
From  Hermon's  top  ;   from  lions  dens-, 
from    leopard's    mountains    fly.  (2) 
9  My  filter  (3),  fpoufe  !  thou  haft  my  heart 
quite   ravifhed  from   Me, 
With   one-  of  thy   ctaafte    eyes.,  with    one 
chain  of  thy   neck   I  fee. 

10  How  fair  thy  loves  (4)  my  filler,  fpoufe* 

how    far    they    wine   excel  ! 
How  fc.r   above    all   fpices    is 
thy   od'rcus    ointments    fmell  ! 

11  Thy  lips   drop  like   the    honey-comb  : 

my  fpoufe,  beneath  thy  tongue 
Honey  and    milk  :    thy    cloaths    perfume 

like   fcents    from   Lebanon. 
32  My   filler,  fpoufe,  a   garden   is, 

fene'd  for  fecurity  ; 
And  as   a   precious    fpring  enclos'd, 

a  fountain  feal'd  for   Me.  13  Thy 

p,)  In  Arabick— make  hafte.  (3)  He  may  call  her  Sifter ;  as  1 
Term  of  tender  and  pure  AfVedtion,  and  as  fhe  was  che  Daugh- 
ter of  a  K.inij,  &c.  (4.)  Keb ,— Lcves,,  or  Lovingkindnejlss, 
aa  in  Chip.  i>  z* 


Solomon's    SONG.  2  7  J, 

15  Thy  cions,   of  pomgranates,   are 
the  fprouts    of  paradife  *  ; 
With  all    the   raoft  delicious   fruits,^ 
camphire  and  fpikenard  choice. 

14  Where   calamus    and  cinnamon, 

with  fafFron,  fpikenard  too, 
All    incenfe-trees,   aloes   and   mirrhj 
with  all    chief  fpices  grow.  (5) 

15  A    fountain   there,  .of  gardens  is 

in    thee,   and   fprings   that    run 
Yea  living   fprings  that   fend   their   ftrearas 
all   round  from   Lebanon.  (6) 

[  The  Church.  ] 
i4>  Awake,  O  north  wind,    come  thou  fouth>* 
and   on  my  garden  blow  ; 
That  all  the   fpice  and  odours  there 

may  forth  abundant  flow. 
And  then  let  my.  beloved  one 

into    my  garden  come, 
Partake  of  his   delicious  fruit,  » 
and  of  his  choice  perfume^ 

chap,  v; 

[  CHRIST.  ] 
.1  T  Am  into  my  garden  come, '■ 
JL     my  filler,   and   my  fpoufe : 
I  gather'd  have   my   myrrh  and  fpice 

for  our  delightful  life  :  " 
My  honey  comb  with  honey  eat,  - 

my  wine  with  milk  drank  I  : 
Eat,  O    ye  friends,  drink,    O  belov'd,  • 
yea  drink  abundantly.   (1). 

N  S;;  I  Th 

(5)  All  the  Varieties  of  fragrant  healthful  and  chearing  Grace?. 
(6)  1  think,  a  plain  Hin'  tJiat  the  Land  and  Church  oijfrael 
v.ere  at  that  Time  chcfiy  meart    by  <A  e  admired  Spoufe. 

( j)  The  firfi  Verfe  <  f  this  Chapter  fliould  have  been  the  lafi  of 
the  preceding ;  be;ng  an  An.wer  to  the  Church's  Prayer: 
and  the  Hebrew  was  no',  divided  into  Qha^Uti  till  above  1400 
Ye,:;s  aftv  Chjust's  Afceafien, 


2  74  Solomon's    SONG; 

-i 

[  The   Church.  ] 

2  I   fleep;  but  yet   my  heart  auakss: 

the   voice  'tis   of  my  Love, 
Who  knocks   and  kindry   calls  to   me; 
and  all  my  bowels  move  ; 
[  CHRIST.  ] 

*  Open  to  Me,  my  fifter-Love, 
■  my  dove,  my    undefil'd  ; 

*  My   head   with    dew,  my   locks    with  drops, 
4  the   night  diftills,  is  fill'd  !* 

[  The   Chur.ch.  ] 

3  My  coat  I  have  put  off  j   how  /hall 

I    put   it  on   again  ? 
And  I  my  feet  have  warned  clean ; 
how  mail   I   them   diitain  ? 

4  But  when  I  my  Beloved's  hand 

upon  the  hitch  difcern'd  ; 
Griev'd  that  I  mould   fo  long  delay, 
my  bowels  ftronger  yearn'd. 

5  I  rofe  to   open  to  my   Love  : 

my   hands   myrrh    dropped  down  j 
And   on    the   handles  of  the  lock 
myrrh    from  my    fingers    run.  * 

6  But  when  the  door  I  cpen'd   wide 

,to  my   Beloved   one ; 
My   Love   had  then    withdrawn  Himfclf, 
and  out  of  fight  was  gone  ! 

When  as  He   (pake,  my  foul   did  fail  ; 

and  now  I  fought  Him  have, 
But  found    Him    not  ;    I    call'd.  to   Him, 

yet  He  no  anfwer  gave  I 

7  The   city-watchmen   met  me   then, 

they  fmote  and  wounded  me, 
The   keepers  of  the  wall   ev'n  tooK 
from   me  my  vail   away. 

8  O  daughters  of  Jerufalem, 

I    charge    you,   to    Him  fayr 
If   my  Belov  d   ye  find,  that  I 
for  love  fliall  faint  awaj. 

I  Daugfacp 


Solomon's    SONG.  27$ 

[   Daughters  of  Jerufalcm,   ]    (2) 
9  O   faireft  thou  of  all  the  fair  ! 
what's  thy  Beloved,  (how  : 
What  more  than  others  is   thy  Love, 
that  thou  doft  charge  us  fo  ? 
[  The   Church.  ] 

10  My  Love  is  white  and  ruddy;    chief 

above  ten  thoufands  fair  : 

1 1  His  head  is  fineft  gold  ;  his   locks 

curl'd,  black  as  ravens,  are  !  . 
J  2  His  eyes  are  like  the  eyes  of  doves 
looking  on  water-flreams  ; 
As  if  they  warned  were  with  milk,, 
and  fitly  fet  as  gems  \ 

13  His    cheeks    like   garden-beds   of  fpice3 

with  flowers  of  fpices  crown'd : 
His  lips  like  lillies,  dropping  myrrh, 
difFufing  odours  round  ! 

14  His  hands  adorn'd  (3)  with  rings  of  golcTr 

with  precious  ftones   (4)  inlaid : 
His  bowels  (5)  like   bright  ivory, 
with  faphires  overfpread   t 

J5  His  legs  (6)  like  marble  pillars  ftand^ 
on   golden   fockets  plac'd  ; 
His  countenance  like  Lebanon, 
with  ftately  cedars  grac'd. 
%6  His  mouth   is    all    of  fweetnefs    made  !  (7) 
He's   perfect   l'ovelinefs  !  (8) 
O   daughters    of  Jerufalem  ! 
my  Love   and   Friend  is   this  ? 

C  H  A  F. 

(2)  They  may  fignify  the  Children  of  the  Church,  by  Birtfi, 
religious  Education,  and  towardly  Car  isge.  (3)  So  the  Sept. 
(4)  So  the  Syr iack,  Mercer  and  Munjier  \  and  'tis  likely  that 
all  the  Rings  were  fet  wirh  precious  Stones  of  various  and 
fparkling  Colours.     (5)   Including  his  Breajl  j  (Ainfaortb.f 

(6)  His  Legs,   including   his  Attire  from  his  Bowels   to  his 
Feet,  ( Ainf":  crth  )  the  Sockets   being  at  his  Knees  a«d  Ankles. 

(7)  Heb.  The  Roof  of  bis  Mouth  is  Stveetnejes  :  by  a  ufual 

Figure,  a  Part  is  mined  for  the  Whole,    (S)  Heb,— He  it 


*7<S  Sckmerfs    SONG, 

CHAP.  VI. 

[  Daughters    of  Jerufalcm.  J 
fe  /^\  Faireit  Thou  of  all  the  fair  ! 
V_y     if  Thou    canft  tell    us,   do, 
Whither  thy  foul's  Belov'd  is  gone, 
that'  we   may  feek  Him  too. 
[  The  Church.  ] 
i  My  Love  is    to   his    garden  gone,  (1) 
down   to  the  beds   of  fpice  ; 
To    feed    in    garden?,   and    collect 
his  Sowers    o£  iillies    choice. 

3  I'm   my   beloved's,  He   is   mine  y 

our    hearts  in  .  one.  agree  ; 
And  feed   among   the  lilly-flowers- 
with   great  delight  doth  He. 
[  CHRIST.  ] 

4  O  Thou   my   Love,  as    Tirza   fair, 

fair    as    Jerufalem, 
Majeilick  *    as<  a    marching   hoft 
we  fee  with  banners    ftream. 
j :  O*  turn   away  thine  eyes   from    Me  ! 
they   have   Me    overborn. 
Tiiine.  hair  is  like  a  flock  of   goats 
which  Gilead's  mount  adorn. 

o  Thy  teeth  are  like  a   flock  of  fheep? 
up   from   the   warning  gone; 
Whereof  ev'n .  ev'ry    one  bear  twins, . 
and  deftitute  is  none. 
y  So  gracefully  within  thy   locks 
thy    temples    formed   arc, 
That. to  poo\grapar.es   in  their  bloom,  (2}" 
I  may   them  well  compare. 

5  Th.;  round  thee  there  are  threefcore  Queens; 

and   concubines   fourfcore, 
And   of  fair   virgins   more  there   are 
than  can   be  nurnber'd  o'erj 

9  Yet; 

(-: )-  To  -the  AJ&mMy  of  all  hit  Saints,      (a). . Sce>agfc&* 


Solomon's    SONG.  tfy 

9  Yet  is  my  dove  my  perfect   one,  (3.) 
the   only  one   to   Me ; 
Yea   of  the   mother   that  her  bare 
the  choiceft   one   is  me. 

The  daughters,  as    they   her    beheld, 

admir'd,   and   call'd  her  blefs'd  ; 
The  queens  and  concubines  were   charm'd,(4)" 
and    thus  her    praife    confefs'd; 
la  "  O,.  how   me   looks   forth   like   the   morn, 
"  fair  as   the   moon    oh   high, 
<*  Clear  as  the  fun,   majeftick  as 
"  an  hoft   whofe   banners   fly  V 
[  Tke   Church.  ] 
Pi  To  the   nut-garden   I  went  down,  (5) 
the  valley  fruit  to  fee  ; 
See  if  the  vines  did  bud,   if  bloom 
did   the  pomgranate    tree. 
L2  And   then  my   foul   quick   mounted   me? 
before  I    was  aware, 
As   on  the   char'ots    of  thofe   who 
my  willing  people    are. 

[  Daughters  of  J-erufahmi'"}-; 
13  But   O   thou  lovely   Shulamite,. 
gone    to  thy  fecret  place  ; 
O   turn,  make  hafte,  and  come  again> 
that  We  may   view  thy  face.! 
[  CHRIST:  ] 
What   fee   you   in   the    Shulamite  V 
what   like  her  has  there  been  ?'■ 
[  Daughters    of  Jerufalem.  J 
She's   like    the    choir    of  angel-hofb 
at  Mahanaim  feen  !  (6) 

C  HA  Pi 

(3)  So  the  Hebrew,  Septuagint,  ancient  Latin,  Syriack,  Arabic1*, 
Montanus.  (4)  i.  e.  The  moft  illuftrious  Per  for.?  ot  the  Na- 
tions round  her.  (5)  To  her  Retirement,  to  examine  how 
her  Graces  flounmed.  (6)  Rzb.~- -Like  the  Ckoru^  Or  deubla 
Hofts  at  Mahanaim.  Gen.  xxxii.  1,  -l. --alike  tor  Number, 
Beauty,  Majeftysnd  Brightr.efs ;  and  may  comprize  the  dvubJs 
SJiweb,  bgtjj  of  ifr&&u  afld.  G.sntuss* 


278  Solomon's    SONG. 

CHAP.    VII. 

[   Daughters  of  Jcrufalem.  ] 

1  T  TOW   beautiful    thy   feet  with    fhoes, 
XJl     O  prince's  daughter,  are  ! 

Thy  joints  (i)   like  jewels  finely  wrought 
by  an    artificer. 

2  Thy    navel  like    a   cover'd   cup,  (2) 

with  liquor  full,   and  round ; 
Thy   bowels   like   a   heap  of  wheat 
about  with  lillies   crown'd. 

3  Thy  breafts  are  like  two   new  wean'd  roes, 

twins   of  one  fruitful   dam. 

4  Thy  neck   like   a   fair   tow'r  appears, 

of  iv'ry  mining  frame 
Thine  eyes   like  Hefhbon-fim  pools  bright, 

Bethrabbim-gate   faft   by  : 
Thy  nofe  like  Lebanon's  fine  tow'r 

which   doth  Damafcus  eye. 

5  Like  Carmel    is  thy  head  on  thee  ; 

the  hair  like  purple  is  ; 
And   thy   rare  beauty  holds    the   King 
in   th'  open  galleries. 

£  CH  R  1ST.  ] 

6  O   how  delightful   thou  my   Love  I 

how   pleafant  and    how   fair. 

7  Thy   ftature  {lately  like   a   palm, 

thy  breafts  as  cluilers  are. 

8  I  faid,   I'll  to    this  ftately   palm, 

to  its   high  top  afcend, 
And  feize  the  pleafant  fruit    (3)  thereof 
which  from   its  boughs    extend.  Thy 

(1)  The  Hebrew  fignifies  the  joints  of  the  Thighs  and  -Knees, 
and  the  learned  Sanclius  and  Bp.  Patrick  (how,  that  the  exter- 
nal Ornaments  only,  are  in  the  five  Firft  Verfes,  defcribed. 
(2)  A  Cup  of  a  Glebular  Form,  -with  a  Crown-work  Cover 
over  it.  See  A-venariui,  Scbind/er,  and  Buxtorf's  %rtztCha!dee9 
Talmudick  and  Rabbinick  Lexicon.  (3)  This  Hebrew  Word  is 
no  where  ufed  but  here,  as  Avenarius  obferves.  The  ancient 
Latin  renders  it  the  Fruits  ;  the  Syriack—the  Boughs  ;  the 
Septuagint  and  Arabick-.-t\iz  Tops,  v. here  they  all  grow  ;  and 
are  all  included  j  as  by  feizing  the  Boughs,  tflC  plcaikflt  fruiti 
called  Dates,  arc  foscd  with  th«a% 


Solomon's    SONG.  279 

Thy   full  grown   breafts  like   clutters  are, 

full   clutters   of  the   vine  :  (4) 
Thy  breath  (5)  fweet,  as  ripe  apples,  fmells (6) 
no   breath  fo  fweet  as  thine. 
[  The  Church.  ] 
9  Like   choiceft  wine  to   my   Beloved, 
that  move  mofl  pleafantly,     * 
And   makes    the  fleeper's  lips    to    fpeak, 
fo   thy    mouth's   roof   (7)    to    me. 
to  I  am  my   Love's ;  and  his  defire 
moves   to  me  as  his  own. 

11  Come   my  belovM,   let  us  go   forth 

to  fee  the   fields  new  fown  : 
Lodge   let   us  in   the  villages  ; 

12  then,  early   let  us  rife, 

Go  to   the   vineyards,   and   there  fee 

if  the   vine  flourifhes  \ 
If  yet   the   tender    grapes   appear  ; 

if  the   pomgranates   gTOW, 
Or   if  they   bud  ;   and    there  my  loves  * 

I'll  fully  to  Thee   mow. 

13  The  mandrakes  fmell  :  and  at  our  gates 

all  pleafant  fruits   we  fee ; 
Which  old  and  new,  O  my  Belov'd* 
I  have  preparM  for  Thee. 
CHAP.     VIII. 
[  The   Church.  ] 
I   /*"X  That   Thou   as  my  brother  wert, 
\^J     fucking  #   my  mother's  breafts  ! 
I    would  Thee   find    abroad  and  kifs, 
and  none   mould   me   difgiace  :  (1) 

2  I'd 
(4)  Thy  Soul  and  Spirit,  mature  in  Grace,  are  like  the  Clufters  of 
ripe  Grapes,  and  Breafts  of  Milk,  full  of  holy  Beauties,  Influ- 
ences apd  Confolations  j  Ifai.  Ixvi.  1 1,  &c.  (5)  Heb.—  Nofe, 
which,  by  a  ufual  Figure  feeros  to  fignify  the  Breath  commonly 
pafling  thro'  it  :  i.  e.  the  gracious  Alpmtions  from  thy  Heart. 
(6)  Heaps  of  ripe  Apples  in  a  Chambei  breathe  a  pleafant 
Smell.  (7)  The  enlivening  Voice  of  thy  Word  and  Spirit, 
from  the  Roof  of  thy  Mouth. 
(j)  That  flie  might  a*  openly  and  freelv  kif  him,  and  with  at 
pure  Affection,  as  a  young  Sifter  kifles  her  dear  and  fucking 
Brother ;  the  0 weft  Ajfe&w  that  wit  cyer  imagia'd, 


2%o  Solomon's    SONG. 

a  I'd  lead   Thee   to  my  mother's  houfe, 
where  ikill  fhe    would   me    (how  : 
Spic'd  wine  of  ray   pomgranate  juice, 
to  drink.   I'd   make  Thee  too. 

3  His  foft   left   hand   mould   underneath 

my   ravifh'd   neck   intwine ; 
His  right   hand  mould   around  me   bend, 
as  one  moil   dearly   mine. 

4  O  daughters  of  jerufalem, 

I    charge  you   make    no    noife, 
To    wake  or  to    dirlurb    my    Lov«, 
till   He    fliall    pleafe   to    rife. 

[  Daughter  ■  of  Jerufalem,  3 

5  But   who   is   this   that  comes    up   now 

out  of  the  wildernefs, 
Leaning  on    her  Beloved   one? 

a  pleafing  fight   is  this  ! 
[  CHRIST  to   the   Church-.  ] 
Thence,  where   thy   mother  thee   did  bear, 

beneath    the    apple-tree, 
Where  ihe  with  pain  had  brought  thee   foi  tb> 

ev'n   thence  I    raifed  thee.   (2) . 
[    The  Church.  ] 
iO   fet    me   then  as  a  dear  feal 

upon    thy    very   heart  ; 
.As    a   feal    hVd  upon    thine  arm, 

that    We    may   never  part  ! 
For   heav'nly   love's  as    flrong   as   death  ; 

and    no    relenting   knows, 
No    more   than    the    devouring   grave ; 

like  burning   coals  it  glows  : 

7  faja 

(2.)  Tho'  the  Point  at  the  End  of" — Thee  —  reprcfents  it  zv 
Maftuiine;  yelieitbcut  the  Point,  as- the  Synagogue  C: pics  have 
none,  the  Senfe  fcems  raihei  to  If  ad  to  the  Royal  Princcfsy  who 
came  trom  gypt,  thro'  the  Wildernefs  :  and  may  allude,  both 
to  Eve's  eatin*  the  forbidjlCfl  Fruit,  and  thence  bearing  all  her 
feeble  Race  with  Anguiih  ;  and  to  the  feeble  Church  of  Ifrael 
brought   foith,    cxpofed    in   Egypt,  and  tr&vellicg -ihro'  liiC 

WUderaefs  to  thcLaadof  JPiwxsifc, 


Solomon's    SONG.  281 

7  It's   flames   are  like   the  flames  of  JAH.  & 

which  many   waters    high 
Can  never   quench,  nor  flowing  floods 

can    drown,   or  ev'r   deflroy. 
And  if  the   wealthieft   man  on  earth 

wou'd   for    thy   love  of  me 
Give  all  the   fubflance  of  his    houfe, 

it   quite  defpis'd  fhou'd  be.  (3) 

S  But   we've    a   little  filler  fair, 

whofe  breafls  are  not   yet  grown  .  (4) 
The  day   when  fu'd   for  fhe  mall   be, 
what   mall  for   her  be   done  ? 
[  CHRIST.  ] 
9  Is   me  firm  as   a   wall,  we'll  build 
on   her    a   filver   tow'r  : 
Or  as  an    open   door   expos'd ; 
with   cedar  boards  fecure.  (5) 
The  Church. 

10  Did   He  not  fee  me  like  a  wall  ? 

my  breafls  as   tow'rs   to  rife"?  (6) 
0   then  like  one  who  favour  feund 
appear'd  I  in  his  eyes  ! 

1 1  A  vineyard  in   a   fruitful   foil 

had   Solomon  ;   and   there 
The  vineyard  leafed  out  to   them 
who  vineyard-keepers  were. 

Each  one  a  thoufand  lilverlings  (7) 
for    it's   rare   fruit   repays. 

12  My  vineyard  (8)  is  before  mine   eyes 

and  in  my  view  always. 

Thy 

(3)  Heb.  —  utterly  defpifed.  (4)  It  may  mean  young,  well  in- 
clined and  hopeful  Souls,  both  Ifraelites  and  -Genti/rs  j  unripe 
in  D  vine  Knowledge,  Wifdom,  Grace,  &c.  (5)  I'  fhe  htfirnt 
in  Grace,  we'll  adorn  her  as  with  a  Jil-uer  T'oiver  of pin  ng 
Majejiy  :  If  expof'd  as  a  new  Houfe  unfinifVd,  with  the 
Door-iuay  open  5  we'll  fecure  her  as  fuch  Houfes  are  with 
Boards  of  Cedar.  (6)  Mature  in  Wifdom,  Grace,  &c.  (7) 
IJ«i.  vii.  23.  i.  e.  a  Thoufand  Sbckek  of  Sihee,  1  Sam.  xviii* 
5'i,  12,.      (8)  i,  e.  my  Heart. 


%U  ISAIAH    il. 

Thy  part,  O  Solomon,  (9)  to   Thee 

a  thoufand  juftly  bears  ; 
And  they    who  keep    the   fruit  thereof 

two  hundred  have  for  theirs. 

13  O  Thou  who  , in   the  gardens  dwel'ft  I 

they  who    companions   are, 
To    thy  delightful   voice   attend: 
O    caufe   Thou  me  to  hear  ! 

14  Make  hafte,  O   my  Beloved  one, 

like    a   fWift    roe    to   me  ; 
And  like  a   fawn  *  of  harts  #  upon 
the  fpicy   mountains  be  !   (10) 

ISAIAH    II.     2—5. 
[  The  glorious  Reign  of  CHRIST.] 

2  TN  latter   days   JEHOVAH's  mount, 
JL     His  facred  houfe  mall  rife 
Above   the  mountains   and  the  hills, 

and  ftrike   the   wond'ring   eyes. 
To   this    the  joyful    nations    round 
all   tribes   and   tongues  mall  flow : 

3  *  Up  to  JEHOVAH's  mount,  they'll  fa/, 

*  to  Jacob's   God  we'll  go. 

•  To   us    He'll   point   his  way  of  truth : 

*  his   facred  path's  we'll  tread: 

'  From    Salem  and  from  Zion  mail 

*  Jehovah"*  law   proceed,' 

4  Among   the  nations    and   the  iflea 

as  judge  fupreme  He'll  fit ; 
And   veiled   with   unbounded   pow'r 
will  punifh  or  acquit. 

No   ftrife   fhall   rage,    no    angry    feuds 

difturb  thofe  peaceful   years  : 
To   plowfhares  then   they  11   beat  their  fwords, 

to  pruning   hooks    their   fpears.  >r 

(9)  i.  fr.  Christ  the  typified  Solomon.  (10)  The  Church 
earneftly  longs  and  \  rays  for  Christ's  ghrioui  Coming  }  and 
in  thtf  mean  while  forhis  grjcuus  and  happy  Vfoi  hy  his 
£iotY  SmiT. 


ISAIAH    v.  &SJ 

No  nation   againft   nation    rife, 

and    flaughter'd   hofts  deplore : 
They'll  lay  the  martial   trumpet  bjv 

and   fludy  war  no  more; 

$  O   come  ye  then,   of  Jacob's   houfe, 
our  hearts   now    let   us  join  ; 
And  walking  in    JEHOVAH's  light*, 
with   holy  beauties   mine. 

ISAIAH    V, 

i  Now-  it'///  I'Jing  to  my  B  e l o v  e  d,  a  Song  of  mp 
Beloved  touching  his  Vineyard.  || 

MY*  mofl   Beiov  d  a  Vineyard  owns,, 
Which  on   a   fruitful    hill   is   feen  % 
2'  Around    it   a   fafe   fence    He    nude, 
And    clear'd  of  all   the  ftbnes  therein. 
Ke  planted    there   a  beauteous    vine, 
And   in   the   midft   He  built  a  tow'r, 
A   wine-prefs    made,   then   look'd  for   grapes?- 
But  grapes  it  yeilded  wild  and  fow'r,. 

3  And   now,    O  ye  inhabitants 
Ev'n   of  Jerufalem,  and   ye 
Of  Judah,  tho'    ye  parties  are, 
Between  my    vineyard  judge  and    Mb* 

4  What  for  my  vineyard  could  be  done 
Which   I    have    not  perform'd   with   care  I 
Why,   when  I    look'd  for   pleafant  grapes, 
Did  thefe  degen'rate   grapes  appear  r 

5  And  now  I'll   tell   you  what  I'll   do  : 
My  vineyard's  hedge  remove  will  I 
To  be  devour  d  ;  and  I'll  throw  down 
It's  wall  ;   and  it  trod,  down  ihail  lie. 

6  I'll, 

y  This  Song  is  plainly  in  the  Style  of  Sthmcns  Song  :  where, 

in  Verfes  i,  zt  7,  the  Pious  Part  of  the  vifible  Church  of  the 

Messiah  fpeaks  ;  calling  Him  her  Bii.ov.ed   three  times  in 

wr.  1,   and  the  LORD  of  Hof.%t  inver.  7.  But  fa  v«r,  3,4,. 

5j  thsMxssiAH  tyeaks  35  a  foal  Jud^c, 


284  ISAIAH    ix. 

6  I'll  lay   it  wafte  and  defolate  ; 
Unprun'd,    undig'd,   with    brambles  fpread, 
And  thorns  :    yea,  to  the  clouds   I'll  fay, 
That  on  it  they   no  rain   Ihould   (hed. 

7  Becaufe    the  houfe   of  Ifrael, 

The  LORD  of  hofts  his  vineyard  is, 
The  men  who  dwell  in  Judah's  tnbe, 
Are  that  moft  pie  (ant  p'ant  of  his: 
And  when  He  judgment  did  ex  peel, 
Lo  !  there  was  an  opprelling  wound  ; 
And  when  He  look  d  for  righteodnefs, 
Then  lo  !  a  bitter  cry  He  found. 
JSAIJNix.    2—7.     [Christ  defcribed.] 

2  TJEOPLE    that    long   in   darknefs    vv.ilk'd 
Jl      Now   fee    a  great    and  wondrous  light  ; 
On  them    who   dwelt  in    (hades    of  death 
The    light    hath    fliin'd  exceeding    bright,  f 

3  The   nations    thou  haft  multiply'd, 
And    now   their  joys  increafed   are ; 
As    in  the  harveft  they  rejoice, 

Like   conqurers   when   the  fpoil   they  (hare. 

4  For   Thou   the  burthen    of  their  yoke, 
The   ftaff  which    on    their    moulders  lay, 
And  their  oppreflors  rod  haft  broke. 

As  01.ee  they  were  in  Midian's  day. 

5  For  all  the   warriours   battles  were 
Throughout  the  earth  from  times  of  old, 
With  noife   confus'd  of  (houts  and  groans, 

Jn    reeking   blood   their   garments  roll'd. 
But    now  this   great,   deeifive   blow, 
Whereby  thy    people  will   be  free, 
Shall  be    by  all  devouring  Fire, 
Wherein  their  foes  (hall  fuel  be.  J  ,  p 

•j-  "Exprefly  apply'd  to  Christ,    Matt.  ii.  14—16. 

j  Tho'  this  Salvation  eminently  Began  at  the  Beginning  of  the 
Miniftry  of  Christ  j  yet  the  infpired  Prophet  feems  to  extend 
his  View  to  the  compleat  Fulfilment  at  the  universal  Con-verfio* 
cflfraclf'yiQ.  before  the  Conflagration ,  and  in  the  glorious  Reign 
of  Christ  in  the  New  Ht  wets  and  New  Eartb  immediate!/ 
after  it* 


ISAIAH    xii.  285 

6  For  lo  !    the   virgin's   child  is   bom, 
To    us   thine    only  Son   is   giv'n; 
Upon   his   fhoulders   ihall   be  laid 
The   government   of  earth  and  heav'ni 
His  name   is   called  Wonderful, 

The  Councellor,  the  mighty  God, 
Eternal  Father,  Prince  of  Peace, 
Peace    over  all   the   earth   abroad. 

7  His   government  fhall  ever  grow, 
And  far   and   wide  o'er  all  extend  ; 
And    univerfal    peace,   the    fruit 

Of  his  juft  reign,   fhall  know  no  end. 
O'er  David's    kingdom  and  his   throne 
To    rule,  and  them   eftablifh   fure, 
With  judgment   right    and  juftice    clear, 
His   reign   for  ever  fhall   endure.  || 
ISAIAH    XII. 

1  (   And  in    that   Day   thou  Jhalt  fay — -  ) 

OLORD,  tho'  with  me  Thou  waft  wrotla 
I'll   praifes    give  to  Thee  ; 
For   now   thy   wrath    is    turn  d   away, 
and-  Thou  dofl   comfort  me. 

2  Behold  !   God  my  falvation  is; 

truft,  and  not    fear,   will    I ; 
Becaufe   our  JAH,  *  JEHOVAH  *  is 

my  ftrength  and  melody. 
He   is  my  full  falvation  too  : 

3  fo   waters    plenteoufly 

Out  of  falvation's    living    wells 
fhall  ye  draw  forth  with  joy. 

4  Praife   ye  the  LORD,   call  on  his  name-£ 

and   to  the  people  fhow 
His  doings  :  that   his   name's   extoll'd, 
deckre    abroad   alfo. 

5  O  fing  ye  to   the  LORD,  for  He 

things    excellent  hns  done  ; 
Yea  thro'  the  univerfal  earth 

the    fame  is  fully  known.  6  Cry 

||  Tbefe  tivoVerfei  arc  exprefly  applied  to  Ckrjst,  Luk,  i.  31 — 33, 


28tf  ISAIAH    xxt. 

•6  Cry  out  and  mout  aloud  O   ye 
who   on  mount  Zion  dwell  ; 
For  mighty   is   the  Holy   One, 
in  Thee,  O  IfraeJ. 

ISAIAH  XXV.  1—9. 

1  T     ORD,  Thou  my  God  !  I'll  Thee  extol, 
,1   .J     1  will  thy  name  confefs  ; 

Who   wonders    doft,   thy   counfels   old 
are   truth  and  faithfulnefs. 

2  For   Thou   a   city   mad  ft   an  heap ; 

its    wall   in   ruin  lies  ; 
The   ftrangers  palace  haft  erasM  ; 
nor  ever  mall  it  rife, 

3  Therefore   the  mighty   people    mall 

great  glory  to   Thee   bear  ; 
The  city   of  the   terrible 
of  nations    mall  Thee   fear. 

4  Becaufe   Thou   to  the   poor  haft   been 

their  ftrength,   as  they  confefs  ; 
A  happy  ftrength  to  helplefs    ones, 

in   times  of  their   diftrefs. 
Thou   art  a  refuge  from  the  ftorm, 

a   fhadow  from    the    heat; 
When   blafts    of  dreadful   ones   like  ftorms 

on   walls  in   fury   beat ; 
And    like    fierce    heat    in  places  dry : 

5  but    Thou  malt  quell    their  noife. 
And,   as    the   heat   by   fhady   cloud, 

fupprefs  their  dreadful  voice. 
6  The   LORD    of  hofts   moreover   will 

upon    this  mountain  make 
A  fumptuous   fe^ft  of  fat  things  for 

all    people   to  partake  : 
A  feaft  of  wines  preferv'd  on   lees, 

for  them   He   will  prepare  ; 
Of  fat  and  marrow-things,  of  wines 

that   molt  refined  are.  f  7  And 

^-  Heb.— -Drawn  from  the  Lees :  and  fo  the  ancient  Latin,  Mon- 
tanus,  Buxtorff,  and  all  the  Lexicons:  the  Ilcb.  Root  fignifying 
—poured  out,  and  the  Heb,  Pntpofition  fignifying — Fran;, 


ISAIAH    XXVI.  287 

7  And  in  this  mountain  He  deftroy 
the   face  of  cov'ring  mail, 
Caft   o'er  all  people,  and  the  vail 
fpread   over  natious    all. 
S  For   ever   He   will   fwallow   up 
death   into    victory. 
The   Lord  JEHOVAH  tears   (hall   wipe 
from    ev*ry   face   and   eye. 

His  people's    whole   reproach   from   all 

the  earth   He'll    take   away. 
■9  Lo  this  our   God  !    who  will  us   fave  ; 

for   Him  we    waiting    ftay  ! 
This  is   the  LORD    on   whom   we  havfc 

our   expectation   had; 
In   his  falvation  we'll  rejoice, 

and   be   exceeding   glad. 

ISAIAH    XXVI. 

1  A  City  of  exceeding  ftrength 
JLjL  Doth  happily  to  us  belong; 
And   the   decreed  falvation  fhall 

Like   walls  and   bulwarks  keep  it   ftrong. 

2  Set   open  then   the  city-gates, 
That   fo  the   righteous    nation,  who 
Immoveably   maintains   the  truth, 
May  gladly  enter   thereinto. 

3  In   perfect    peace   Thou    fuch    a  one 
Wilt  ever   furely    caufe    to    be, 
Whofe  mind  on  Thee   fecurely  ftays ; 
Becaufe   he  hopes    alone  on   Thee. 

4  Repofe  then  ever   in  the  Lord, 
The   lively   hope   of  all    your   mind  ! 
Becaufe   in  JAH,  *  JEHOVAH,*  fure, 
A  rock   eternal    ye  mail   find. 

5  He'll  bring  down  thofe    who  dwell  on  high, 
He'll    lay    the    haughty    city    low, 

He'll   lay  it  level   with   the    ground, 
And  down  into  the  duft  will  throw, 

6  The 


288  ISAIAH    xxvi. 

6  The   feet   of  the   afflicted   (hall 

In   triumph    tread   it   wholly  down; 
And  it  fhall   lie  beneath  the   feet 
Of  him   that   was   a   helpiefs   one. 

[  2  Part.  ] 

7  The  way  of  ev'ry  righteous   man 
Is  univerfal    righteoufnefs  ; 

And  Thou,  O   Righteous  One,  dolt  weigh 
In  righteoufnefs  each  path  of  his. 
S  Moreover    in  thy  judgments   way, 

LORD,   Thee    we   longing  look  to  fee ; 
Our  fouls  defire  is    to    thy  name, 
And  to   the  memory   of  Thee. 

9  In  the   dark   feafons  of  the   night, 
My   foul   Thee    earneftly  defires  : 
My  wakeful  fpirit  in  my  breaft 
For   Thee    at    early   dawn    inquires. 
For  when  thy  judgments  are  difplay'd 
On  earth,  the   world's  inhabitants 
Shou'd   lay  to  heart   thy    righteous    works, 
And  learn    the    righteoufnefs   of  faints. 

lo  Tho'  for   a   wicked  man   there  mould 
Bowels   of  heav'nly  pity  yearn, 
Yet   he  the    way   of  righteoufnefs 
Will   not    perfwaded    be   to   learn  : 
Tea,  in   the  land  of  righteoufnefs 
He'll    work    perverfe    iniquity  ; 
Nor  will    he  ev'n  fo  much    as  fee  * 
JEHOVAfi's   glorious  majefty. 

j  j    LORD,    when   thine    hand   is  lifted    up, 
In    thy    raoft   awful  judgments,  high; 
Yet    left    they   fee   thine    hand   therein, 
Perverfely  they   will   fliut  their  eye. 
33ut   with   confufion   they   mall    fee 
The  zeal  #  Thou   for  thy  people  haft, 
And    the    confuming    fire    that    mall 
Thine  adverfaries  wholly  wafte. 

[3  P^t.  2 


ISAIAH    xxvi.  2% 

[   3   Part.   ] 
13  JEHOVAH,   certainly   Thou  wilt 
Safety    and    peace   for  us   ordain  : 
For    our    affairs  Thou   manage  doit, 
And    for   us,   all   our  works    maintain. 

13  O   LORD    our   God,    tho'  other    Lordi 
Have    reigned  over   us,   we  own  ; 

Yet  hence,   thy   name  we  mention   will, 
And   by   Thee    none    but    thine    alone. 

14  They'r  dead,   and  mall    not  live    sgain  ; 
Deceas'd,    and    never    mall    arife  ; 

Thy   judgments    have  deftroy'd  them  -quit^ 
Yea   caus'd   that  all    their   mem'ry   dies. 

15  The  nation,  Lord,  increafeft  Thou, 
Our  nation  greatly  haft  increas'd ; 
And  Thou  haft  glorify'd  thy  fdf, 
And   thro'  the  earth  defpers'd  them  haft. 

16  O  LORD,   when    they   were  in    diftrefv 
They  Thee  then  vifited  with  cries  ; 
And    pray'r   in   fecret  poured  out, 
When    Thou   didft  forely  them    chaftize. 

17  Like  as  a  pregnant  woman  when 
Approaching    travail   comes   apace, 

Is    paimd,    and    in    her    pangs    cries    out  * 
So  were  we,  LORD,  before  thy  face, 

J 8  We  trouble  have   conceiv'd,  are   pain'd, 

But    bring    forth  vanity,   and   wind  ; 

Nor   do   the   world's  difturbers    fall: 

Nor   we    on   earth   deliverance   find. 

[  4  Part.  ] 

39  Thy    dead  mail  furely  live  again, 
With  my    dead  body   rife  they   mufr  2 
Awake   out  of  the   ileep    of  death, 
And    ling  ye    who    dwell   in  the  duft  ! 
Becaufe    the    dew   that   falls   on   thee, 
Is    like    the  dew    that    makes    herbs    grow  ? 
But    out  abroad    with    violence, 
The  earth   the  wicked   ones  J  mall   throw. 

O  20  Come 

%  So  the  $#tt  CbaJde;,  Arab,  and  ft  fitf#.  in  iV/'s  Sjr.cf, 


29  a  ISAIAH    xxxviil 

20  Come  then  my  people  enter  in 

To    chambers    that    moll    fectet    are  ; 
And    after    thee    in  ut    thou    the    doors, 
And    make    them    fail   with   utmoft   care. 
There    do   thou    hide   thy    felf  a   v/hikj 
It   mall   but  as  a  moment    be, 
And    all    the    indignation    mall 
Be    pafs'd  for  ever   over  thee. 

2}  For   lo,    the    LORD    is   coming  forth, 
Out    of  his   dwelling    place    on    high, 
Upon    the    earth's    inhabitants, 
To  punifh  their  iniquity. 
The   earth  /halt  then  difclofe   and   mow 
The   bloods*    within   her  buried ; 
Her   flain   (hall   be    brought    forth  to   view, 
And   be   no   longer  covered. 

ISAIAH    XXXVIII.    io— a«. 

*Xbt  Song  of  Hezekiab,  after  his  Recovery  from  Sicknefs* 

to  T^  /TY  days   I  faid  are   now   cut    off, 
XVJ-  And    going    to  the  grave  am  I, 
And  of  my   hop'd  for  coming  years 
I    am  deprived  utterly. 

11  I    faid,   that  JAH    I   mall    not  fee, 
JAH  in   the  land  of  life  behold  ; 

And   man   mine   eyes  mall   fee   no  more, 
Nor  any   dwellers  in   the    world. 

12  My  dwelling   here   is   pafs'd  away, 
Removed  as  a   fhepherd's  tent ; 
My  life   as  threads   by  weavers  cut, 
He   cut   me    off  by   languifhment. 
From  day   to  night  Thou  doft  me  wafte, 
An   ench  of  me  wilt  quickly  make. 

1 2  I    in    the  morn  look  ;   but  by  night 
My    bones    He'll  as    a  lion  break. 

}L  Like   cranes  or   fwallows    chatter'd  I, 

Like  doves   I    mourn'd    thro*    pain  and   grief, 
Mine   eyes    with   looking   upwards  fail'd. 
JLQ&Dj  Fna  opprefAl;  0  give  relief. 

*  j5  Whq 


ISAIAH    xlv.  ^;% 

15  What    fliall  I  fay?  but  humbly   own, 
He  well  hath    fpoke   and  done  to  me. 
And   I   in    bitternefs    of  foul 

Will   all  my   years   repenting   be. 

16  As,  LORD,  Thou  art  the   life  of  men.* 
Life  to   my  fpii  it  Thou   dofl  give  ; 
Thou   fully  wilt  recover  me, 

And   Thou    wilt    make    me    ftill    to    live* 
I  j  Lo,  I  for  peace  great  trouble  found, 
But  to  my    foul  in   love    Thou    haft; 
From  the  corrupting    pit  me  fav'd, 
My   fins  behind  thy  back  haft   caft. 

18  For   graves   cannot   mew   forth    thy   prai^ 
Neither  can  death   Thee    celebrate, 

Such    as   go.  down   into  the  pit 

To   fee   thy  truth  no    more  can   wait, 

1 9  The  living    does,    the  living  iu///, 
Thee    praife,  ev'n    as    I    do    this    day; 
The   father  to  the    children  (hall 
Thy    acts    of  faithfulnefs    difplay. 

20  Ready  to  fave  me  was  the  LORD: 
Therefore  we  will  my  fong<:  of  praife 
Sing  in  JEHOVAH's  houfe  with  joy, 
Throughput;  our   lives,    ev'n    all   our  days* 

ISAIAH    XLV.    21—25. 

21  T7R0M  ancient  times    I  have  dcclar'd, 
JT    I    cm    JEHOVAH,    GOD  alone, 
A  righteous    God,   and    Vie   befides 

A   faviour   is,  or    c$n  be   none. 

22  Then    look  to  me  ye  fainting  fou!s? 
In    ev'ry  place,   in    ev'ry   land  ; 
And   ye  fliall   joyfully    receive 
Salvation   at  my    mighty    hand. 

23  For  I  am   God,   and  none  befides, 
I  even  by    My   ftlf  have  fv/orn 

In   righteoufnefs  :  'and  now  the  word 
Gone  fron*  my   mouth,   fliall    not  return  ? 

o  z  : 


2?2  ISAIAH    Jiii. 

It  is, c  that   every  knee    to    Me 

*  Shall   bow,    and   ev'ry   tongue   (hall   fwear, 

24  *  And  fay,    that   in   the    LORD    alone 

■  My   ftrength  and   righteoufnefTes  *  are  :' 

Yea  all  who  feel  their  wretchednefs 
With    humble   joy   mail  come  to   Him : 
But    thofe  who   with   Him  are  difpleas'd, 
Shall   be    diilrefs'd   with    endlefs    mame. 

25  In  Thee,    JEHOVAH,  Ifr'ePs  race, 
All   fully  juitify'd    mall  be  ; 

In  Thee   (hail    triumph  o'er  their  foes, 
And   all  be  glorify'd   in  Thee. 

/  S  A  I  A  H    LIII. 

[77v  AhafdmerJ  '&  Exaltation  o/C h r  i  s t  ;  Ails  vii'u] 

1  S~\   Who    lias    our   report    believ'd  ? 

KJ  And  who  JEHOVAH'S  arm  doth  know? 

2  For    as    a   tender    plant   and    root 

Before   Him,   from  dry    ground   He'll   grow. 
He   has   no  form,  nor  comelinefs  ; 
And    when    his    troubled    face    we    fee, 
No  beauty  in  Him  we  difcern, 
That  by  us   He  defir'd  mould   be. 

3  He   flighted  and   rejected    is 

Ev'n   of  the    men    He    came   to   fave  : 
A   man    of  conftant    forrows   full, 
And  intimate  with  heavy  grief. 
Yet  we,   while  He  was    thus    abus'd, 
Our    faces   turn'd  and  hid  from  Him  ; 
Ify   others    round    He    was    defpis'd, 
Is  or     did  we    Him    at  all    efteem. 

4.  Tho*    fare   they  were   our    griefs   He*  bore, 
Our    finking    forrows  bear  did   He  ; 
Yet  ftrook,  and  fmote,  and  fcourg'd  by  GOD, 
We  judg'd    Him    righteoufly  to    be. 

t  But   ah  !    'twas    only    for    our  fins 
That   He  did   all  his   wounds  receive : 
For    our    iniquities  was  bruis'd, 
That  He  might   us  from  them  relieve.  ' 

Out 


ISAIAH    liii.  2?3 

Our   chaftifement   on    Him   was   laid, 

To  purchafe   our   eternal    peace  : 

And    by   his  flripes    it    is    that  we 

Are   heal'd   with    wondrous    pow'r   and  grace. 

6  We  all  like    fheep  aftray  have  gone, 
Each    turn'd  to    his    own    finful    way: 
And   yet  the  trefpafs  of  us  all 

The  LORD  on  Him  alone  did  lay. 

7  Opprefs'd,    abus'd,    He  filent  was, 

As    the  meek   lamb  to  flaughter  brought; 
Or    fheep,   before    her    (hearers    dumb, 
His    guiltlefs    mouth    He    op'ned    not. 

8  From   judgment    and  from  pris'n   [the  grave] 
Soon    rais'd  and    took   away    was  He ; 

And    of  his    generation    who 
Shall    tell    the  wondrous    hiitory  ? 
For    from    the   land   of  living  ones 
In    early    age    was   He    deftroy'd  ; 
And  for   my  people's  fins  the   ftroke 
Of  violent  death    was  on  Him  laid. 

9  With    criminals    He    dy'd ;    and  yet 
Among    the  rich  He  made   his  grave ; 
Becaufe  He  did  no  injury, 

Nor   ever   with   his   mouth  deceive. 
io  Yet  it  JEHOVAH  pleas'd   to"  bruife 
And    put  Him    to  extreme  diflrefs, 
When    Thou    fhalt   offer    up    his   foul 
Only  for  others  trefpaffes  : 
When  this  is    doue,   then    He  fhall   rife, 
Live    ever,  and  his    offspring  fee  ; 
JEHOVAH's    pleafure    in    his   hand 
Shall   profper  to  eternity  : 

II  The   multiply'd    and    happy    fruit, 
Of  the   vaft   travel    of  his-  foul, 
He  fhall   furvey,   and  with  the  view 
He   fhall   be  pleafed   to  the  full  : 
By    knowledge  of   the   way  of  life, 
My    righteous    fervant  fhall    appear 
Valt   multitudes    to'  juftify  • 
For  He  their  fins  will  fully  bear.  12 


994  1  S  A  I  A  M    hi 

12  Therefore   a   portion    -with   the   great 
To    Him,   as  due,  divide  I  will ; 
And   with    the  mighty    ones   ftiaU    He 
Divide   and    fhare    the    glorious   fpoil. 
Becaufe   He  pour'd   his  foul   to  death, 
And  with    tr.infgrefTors  numbred    was : 
The  fin  of  many    bore ;    and    He 
For  helplefs   finners    pleads   the    caufe. 
ISAIAH   LV. 

\ThCall  of  GOD  in  C  kri  s  t  to  perifliing  Sinners."] 
I    "r_TO  !    ev'ry    thiifly,    longing    foul  ! 

X~JL   Come    where    the   living   waters  flow ; 
Come,   buy,   eat,   drink  my  wine  and  milk : 
Tho'  nothing  ye,  of  worth,  can  mow. 
•2  Why  do  ye  fpend  your   coft   and   toil> 
For  what   cannot    content    the  foul  ? 
Hear   Me,    and  feed  on  folid   good, 
Your   fouls  with   fatnefs  mail  be   full. 

3  Incline   your   ear   and  come  to  Me, 
Hear,   and   your  foul   mail    ever    Jive  % 
I'll    an  eternal   covenant 

And   David's   certain  mercies  give. 

4  Lo  !    \   have  Him    a   witnefs   giv'n, 
For   all    the    people   to   obferve; 

A   leader  and    commander    made, 

That  'all  the  people   mould  Him  ferve.'j 
ij  The    gentile    nations    Thou   malt  call  ; 

And  they   mail    run   to  Thee  with  joy  ; 

The   LORD  thy   God,  the  Holy  One 

Of  Tfr'el    Thee    will   glorify. 
6  O  feek  ye  for   the    LORD,  while   ye 

To   your    great  joy   may   find    Him   here ; 

And    call    upon    Him  earneftly, 

While   in  his    mercy  He  is  near. 
'7  Let   wicked  men    forfake    their  ways. 

Their  thoughts    let    the    unrighteous    leave; 

And  to    the  LORD  let  them  return ; 

And  meicy  on  them  He  will  have.  Let 

fj  David  being  now  dead  about  300  Year,  'tis  plain  that  Ckri  st, 
thepromifrd  Se»d  of  David,  muft  be.here  intended  :  fo  Christ 
is  called  David,  Jer.  xxx,  9.  Ezek,  xxiv.  *3,  »4.  Ho^  *"•  ft 


LAMENTATIONS   iii.     29$ 

Let   them   remember  He's   our   God, 
So  wondrous    for    benignity  ; 
O    let  them    then  return  to  Him, 
And   He'll    forgive    abundantly. 

LA  ME  NT AT IONS    HI. 

1  T  Am    the   man  who    by  his    rod 

X  Of  wrath    fee  difmal    fcenes    of  woes  ; 

2  He  hath    me   into  darknefs  brought, 
And   not    a  gleam   of  light  He    fhows, 

3  He    furely   is  againft  me  turn'd 

His  hand  all   day   He  turns  on   me. 

4  My  flefli    and   fkin  He  eld  hath  made 
My  bones    to   pieces   broke   hath  He. 

5  He   built    around   me  :  and   with    gall 
And  travel   me  encompaiTed  : 

6  He  hath  me  fet  in  places  dark, 

As    thefe   who    long    ago    were    de?A. 

7  So  hedg'd  me  in,  I   can't  get    out  ; 
Makes    me    his    heavy  chain    to  bear; 

8  And  when  I  earneft  cry  aloud, 

.'He    grievoufly    fhuts  out   my    pray'r. 

9  He    with    hewn   ftones   enclos'd  my  path. 
And  intricate    hath  made    my  way : 

10  He   as    a  bear    lays    wait   for  me, 

A  lion   in    a   hidden  place. 
•11   He  turned   hath    my   ways  afide  : 

He   hath   to   pieces    pulled  me  : 

Of  all  my  comforts  hath   bereav'd 

And  made    me   defoiate  to   be. 

12  He    bent    his    bow  ;    and    me   a  mark 
Did  for   his   fnarp'ned   arrows  place  ; 

13  The   arrows    of  his    quiver    caus'd 
Into  my  tender   reins   to    pafs, 

14  To   all  my   people   I'm  a  feoff, 
And    all  the    day"  their  jeering    fong  ■• 

-15  He  made  me   full   of  bitternefs, 

And  even   drunk   with  woimwood   ilrong, 

O  4  16  Yea 


i.96    LAMENTATIONS   iii. 

16  Yea   He  my   teeth   with  gravel  break, 
And    all    in   allies  rolled  me. 

17  Thou   put'ft  my  foul  fat  off  from  peace, 
And    I   forgot  prosperity. 

t8  Yea   I    did  fay,   my   ftrength   and  hope 
Are   wholly   psrifh'd   from    the    LORD. 

19  My   grief  and  pain,   wormwood   and  gall, 
I   in    my  troubled  mind  record. 

20  My   foul   doth  ftiil  remember  them, 
And   in  me  low  abas'd,  doth  lie  :  : 

21  Yet   to   my  mind  I  this  recall, 

And   thence    a   glimpfe    cf  hope   have  I  ; 
2  2  It's    of  the  mercies   of  the  LORD, 
We  ate  not   quite   confum'd  away  ; 
Becaufe   the   pity   of  his  heart 
1  Nor   does)  nor  ever  ivill  decay, 

23  They  ev'ry  morning   are    renev/d  : 
Thy  changefefs  faithfulnefs  is  great. 

24  The   LORD'S,  my  portion,  faith  my   foul; 
And   thence   my   hope   I'll   on    Him    fet. 

25  To  them   who   wait  for  Him,  the  foul 
Who    fbeks   Him,   gracious    is    the   LORD  j 

26  'Tis  bed  in   quietnefs  *   to    wait 
Till    He  falvation   will   a!lbrd. 

27  Good   for  a  man   it   is   in    youth 

That   he    fhould  bear  the   humbling   yoke": 

28  He  fits   alone,  and   illence  keeps, 
Becaufe   he  bears   thy  holy   flroke. 

29  He  puts  his   mouth  into  the   duit, 
If  {o  there  any  hope  may  be  : 

$0  His   cheek  to   him   who  fmites  he  gives, 
Tho'    filled   with    reproach   is    he. 

31  Ever  the    Lord  will  not   caft  off: 
But    tho*    He    caufes  pungent  giief;. 

32  Yet   in  his    mercies  great  He  will 
Compaffion  have,   and  give   relief. 

33  For   He's    not  willing  to   afBicI: 

Or  grieve  the  fons  of  men  'tis  known  r 

34  To  crufh  the  prif'ners  of  the  earth, 

Or  under  feet  to  tread  them  down.  35  To 


LAMENTATIONS  iii.     297 

35  To  turn    afide    the    right    of  man 
Before  the  face   of   th"e  most   High  ; 

36  Or  to   fubvert  his   righteous    caufe  ; 
The    Lord  abhors  eternally. 

37  Who's   he    that  faith,   and  then   performs, 
Unlefs   it   be  the    hordes  good  will. 

38  Out   of  the  mouth   of  the    most    High9 
Proceed   all  good    and   penal   ill. 

39  Why   for  the    punifhment    of  fins 
Doth    any  living  man   complain  ? 

40  O   let  us   fearch   and  try  our  ways, 
And   to   the   LORD    now  turn   again. 

41  O   let    us  lift   our   hearts  and  hands'  = 
Up   to   the    mighty  God  in  heav'n : 

42  We  all  have  trefpafs'd  and  rebell'd, 
Nor   haft   Thou    yet   our  iins  forgiv'n. 

43  Thy    wrath    us  covers    and  purfues  ; 
Thou  flay'ft,  and  do  ft  not  pity   mow. 

44  Thou   fo   with   clouds   doll:  hide  thy  felt 
That    our   loud  cries    cannot  pafs   through, 

45  Amidft   the  people    haft  us    made 
Th'  off-fcouring,    refufe,    and    the  jeer. 

46  And  the  wide  mouths   of  all    our  foes, 
Againft  and   round   us    op'ned    are. 

47  Fear  and    a    fnare   are    come    on   us  ; 
And  all    in    dcfolation   lies  : 

48  For   daughters  of  my   people's    wafte 
Rivers    of  tears   run   down    mine   eyes. 

-49  Mine  eyes    with    tears  flow  .down  apace  ; 
And  will  no   intermiilion  know, 

50  Until    the    LORD    from  heav'n  look   down. 
And   fee  us  in  our  difmal   woe. 

5 1  Mine  eye    aftecls    my   foul  #  with   grief, 
To  fee    my    city's    daughters   cafe : 

52  My  foes  purfue  me  unprovok'd, 

The  harmlefs    birds   as    fowlers    chafe. 

53  My  life    they  in   the  dungeon  funk, 
And   on   me  heavy   ftones   they   call. 

54  The    waters   flowing    o'er    my  head, 

I  faid,  "  I'm  gone,   all  hope  js  paft  !" 

0  5  55  O 


&98  JONAH    fi. 

55  O  LORD,  I   call'd  upon  thy  name, 
In    the  deep   dungeon,    like    to  die  : 

56  Thou  heardft  my   voice,  hide  not  thine  car, 
From    my    fhort    panting    and    my  cry. 

57  Then  Thou  drew'ft  near,  and  faidft,"  Fear  not  !'* 
Ev'n    in    the    day    I    call'd    on    Thee  : 

•58  Lord,   my   foul's   caufes  Thou  did  pleac^ 

And    my  expiring  life  fet  free. 
59  JEHOVAH   judge   the   caufe   for  me, 

As   Thpu   my  wrongs  haft  always  feen. 
*6o  As    their    reveng-e    and    all   their    plots 

Before    thine    eyes    have    ever    been. 
■ti  All  their  reproach,  Thou  LORD,  haft  heard- 

Thou   feeft  the    fnares   they    for  me    lay, 
62  Their    lips   who   up    agairift  me   rife, 

And  .all  their  plotting?  all   the  day. 
6$  See,  when  they  fit,   and  when   they  rife, 

The    mufick   of  their    fongs   am    I  : 
^4  But    LORD,    as    are   their  handy    works 

A'juft    reward  Thou  wilt   apply. 
-65   Sorrow    of  heart  Thou    wilt   them    give, 

Thy  grievous  curie    wilt    make   them  bear  j 
•<66  In  wrath    them    chace    and  from   beneath 

JEHOVAH's   heav'ns  wafte    ev'ry   where. 

JONAH    II. 

\  The  Sor:g  of  Jonah  upon  bis  grevt  DeliveranceJ\ 
2   T  To  'the  LORD   in  my  diftrefs" 

JL  Cry'd   earneftly,   and    He    gave   ear  ; 
Out  from  hell's   belly    then    I    cry'd, 
And    He   my   voice  did    kindly  hear. 
For   down    into    the  hideous   deeps, 
And  midft  of  feas,  Thou  didft  me  caft; 
The    floods   encompafs'd    me,  and  all 
Thy  waves  and  billows  o'er  me  pafs'd. 

I  then   faid,   I  was   caft    away 
Quite  from    the  fight   of  thy   bleft   eyes,  * 
¥ct    tow'rds    thy    temple    I    will    look, 
AvA  to  Thee  there  direct   my  cries. 

1  3  The 


3 


HABAKKUK    in.  299 

$   The  waters   to  my  finking  foul 
Pierc'd.  and  encompas'd   me  around; 
The   depths    all   round  enclofed  me, 
The    weeds    about    my   head  were  bound. 

6  To    mountains   bottoms   I   went    down, 
Earth's    bars  for  ever  me  befet  ; 

Yet   LORD  my   God,  Thou    haft  my  life 
Brought    up    out   of  the    horrid   pit. 

7  When    my    funk    foul    fainted  in  me, 
JEHOVAH    then   remember'd   I; 

And  then   my   pray'r  rofe  up   to  Thee, 
Into  thy  holy   place    on  high. 

-8  They    their   own    mercies  fadly  leave, 

Who   look  to  lying  vanities : 

But   with    the  voice  of  giving   thanks, 

To  Thee  I'll  praifes    facrifice. 
§  Whatever  I  in  trouble   vow'd, 

To    pay  I  readily  accord; 

For  all   falvation  ever  comes 

From   the  moll  kind  and  fov'reign  LOR.D. 

HABAKKUK    III. 
The  Prayer  c/Habakku^k  the  Phrophet. 
2  np HY  fpeech,  O  LORD,  I  heard  with  fear : 
I,       In   midft  of  years    thy   work   declin'd 
Reyivc,   O   LORD,  and  make   it  *   known  ; 
In  wrath  thy  tender    mercies   mind. 
,3  The  mighty    God  from  Teman    came, 

The   Holy   One   from  Paran-hill  :      (Ssla/j.) 

His   glory  cover 'd    all   the   fkies, 

And  all   the  earth   his   pfaife    did  >filf. 

4  His  brightnefs  as    tile   light    appear  "d, 

And  beams   of  fplendor  f   from   Him  J  flow'd; 
Where    was    the   hiding    of  his    pow'r, 
There    then  it  ,blazed  all   abroad  f| 

5  Before 

f  The  Word  figniSes  both  Horns  and  Beams  j  derives  from  a  Root 
which  figniiies  beamivg  forth  :  %  and  the  Word  commonly 
rendered  Hards,  fignifies  alfo  Sides :  See  Avcnariusl  Buxtorf, 
Scbindler,  Pugim  ttf  Miner,  tofltlfus.  .afld  Martin  Alhth 

4  Ckaldti% 


H  A  B  A  K  K  U  K    iii. 

5  Before   Him  went  the   peftilence  : 
Coals   glowing    at   his  feet    were  fpread  : 

6  When    he   flood    up,    the    earth  was   mov'd  :  f 
He  look'd,    and   ?M    the  nations   fled  ; 

Th'   eternal  mountains    were  difpers'd  j 
The  hills   of  perpetuity, 
Bow'd    Jo'.vly   down    before   his   feet  : 
His   ways    abide   eternally. 
7  The    tents    of  Ethiopia   then 
In    great  affliction  I  did  fee  : 
The  curtains    thro'   all"  Midian's    land, 
Shook   at   the   dreadful    fight  of  Thee  .' 

S  Agaitfft:  the  rivers,  floods  or  feas, 
Did  then  JEHOVAH  anger  bear, 
That   on    his   troops   of  horfes    rode ; 

HlS      CH.'.HIOTS      OF     SALVATION    WERE. 

c   As   to    thy   tribes,  to   fave    them,   Thou 
Thy   folemn  word  and  cath   didft  give  ; 
Made    wholly  naked  was  thy    bow,     (Selah.) 
The  earth  with    rivers  Thou   didft    cleave. 

io  Thee   faw,  and   fnook  the   mountains   great  ; 
The   floods   of  waters   rolled   by; 
His    voice  loud  utter  did    the    deep, 
And  lifted    up  his  hands    on  high. 

1 1  The    tun  and    moon,  when   Thee   they  faw, 
Stood   ftill   amaz'd  in    their  high   Sphere: 
But  quick   movM   at   thine   arrows   light, 
And  brighter   glittering    of  thy  fpear. 

12  Thou  marcheft  thro'  the   land   in   wrath,    , 
The    heathen  thremeft   as    in    rage : 

13  In   flames   of  zeal   Thou   goeft   forth, 
To   fave    thy  finking  heritage. 

With   thy    Messiah!   them    to   fave: 
Thou    from    the    wicked's    houfe,    the    head 
Haft  quite   cut  off;  §   and  from   his  feet |J 
Up   to   his  neck,  all  bare  haft  laid.     (Se/a/j.) 

14  Thou 

f  Sefiuagint,  Chahiif.  Arabick.     \  Hcb.  Sept.  Cbald,  Syriarf, 
§  Syriaek,         |{  M;r,Khius  ia  f  t'„  Synop% 


L  U  K  E    i.    46,  55.  301 

14  Thou   haft  with  his  [Messiah's]  rods 

Struck  thro'   the    univerfal    head, 

Of  all  their   rmm'rous    villages, 

And  all   in   defolation   fpread. 

They,  as  tempeftuous  whirlwinds,  rofb 

And   ruflied   on,   to   fcatter  me  : 

Their  joyful    hope    was   to   devour 

The    poor    afflicted  fecretly, 
35  But   when    I    faw  Thee  walk  along, 

And  with   thy   horfes  thro'  the  fea, 

Thro'   all    the  waters  mighty  heaps, 

Againft   the  dreadful  enemy. 

16  I  heard  !  my  belly  trembled  through  ; 
At  thy  loud  voice  my  lips  did  quake  : 
A    rott'nnefs    feized    all    my   bones  ; 

I  thro'   my  felf  did  greatly  make  : 
That  in  this  day  of  trouble  I 
Might  in  fafe    quietnefs  repofe  ; 
While   for    his    people   He    afcends, 
And    with    his   troops   invades  their  foes. 

17  Tho'  figtrees  mould  no  bloflbms  yield, 
Nor    any  fruit    on   vines    appear, 

The   labours    of  the  olive  fail, 

And   tho'  the  fields   no   food  mould   bear ; 

Tho*   from  the   folds  the   flocks  mould  ceafe, 
In  Halls   no   cattle   have    abode  ; 

18  Yet   in  the    LORD    I    will    exult, 
And   joy   in    my  falvation's   God. 
JEHOVAH   is   my    Lord  and   ftrength  : 
He    makes   my   feet   fwift   as    the  roe : 
He  leads    me   to  my  places  high, 

And   makes    me   fafe   on    them  to   go. 

LUKE    I.  46—55. 
The  Song  cfthebleffed  Virgin  Mary,  at  her  meeting 

Elizabeth. 
46  "\  TY  foul    doth  magnify  the   LORD  : 
1VX  47   My   fpirit    greatly  doth    rejoice 
In  GOD  my  faviour  ;  whom  I  praife 
!  With  joyful  aad  exulting  ycice,  g 


pz  LUKE    i.    6S— 79, 

48  For  greatly   He    regarded   hath 
His  i   in    her    low    eflate  : 
And  hence  all  ages    0  .rid 
Shall    me    as   bk..                  ate. 

49  Th'  Almighty   wondrous   things  hath   done, 
To    me  :  and    holy    is  his    name : 

50  To   them  who  fear  H  ::es  flow; 
From  race    to    race   they    ever    ftream. 

51  He    with    his    arm   hath   me..  ::h$ 
The    great   and    proud  hath    lettered 

In    the    devices    or"   the  . 
They    v.-.inly   had   imagined. 

52  Down    from    their    feats    of  digr! 
The   high    ar  m   He-, 
And  has  exalted    thofe    on  high 

j   were    before    of  lew   degree. 

53  The  hungry  hath  with  good  things  £Jld, 
The   rich   has   empty    I 

54  His   fervant    IlVel    greatly    he  r 
His  mercy  minds,  and  will  difp: 

55  A  He   to    oar    fathers  fpike, 

So    wondroufly    perform    d:th    He 
To   Abraham  and  to  his  race, 
And   inill   ev'n   to    eterr:: 

LUKE  I.  6S—  79. 
rZachanaa  cf]ohntke 

Bafi 

68  'rT^HE    LORD,  the  GOD   of  Ifrael 
X       be    greatly   bleiV  He 

Hath   now    his    people 

:Vee. 
Who    cur   fal  ration's  mighty  Hero, 
foretold   in   ancient   d_ 
:    of  his  fervant   David's  houfe, 
hr.th    now   been   pleas'd  to  rai. 

70  According    to    his    prom 

.proclaimed   by  holy   men, 

nee   the  world  began 
by   gun 


LUKE     ii.    14.  303 

"71  That    we   from   all    our  enemies 
by  Him  may  fared   be ; 
And  from   the    cruel  hands  of  all 
who  hate  us  may  be  free. 

72  To  grant    the    mercy    promifed 
our  fathers  ;  and  to   mind 
His  holy   covenant,  (73)  Hts  oath 
to    Abraham    his   friend. 

74  That   us   from    fear    and    foes    hand   freed, 

to    ferve    Him    He    would    give ; 

75  In    holinefs    and    fighteoufr.efs, 

before    Him,    while    we    live. 

76  And    with    his    prophets,    the    most    high, 

dear   Child,   will  number   thee ; 
Before  the  LORD,  to  clear  his  way, 

thou   malt  employed  be. 
"77  The   doctrine    of  falvation  thou 

fhalt  make   his    people  know  : 
And  how  He  will  forgive  their  fins 

thou^flialt  them  clearly  fliow. 

78  Thro'   tender  mercies    of  our  GOD  5 

whereby  the  fpringing  day     - 
Begins   to    rife    and   vifit   us, 
and    chafe    the  night  away. 

79  To   light    thofe  who  in.  darknefs   fit, 

and    in    death's   made  refide ; 
And   in    the   way    to    endlefs  peace 
our   fbot-fleps    fa'fely   guide. 
LUKE    ii.    14. 
The  Song  of  the  heavenly  Hojls  at  the  Birth  <5/"Chri$t. 

ALL   glory    to  the    moft    high   GOD, 
on    high    let    glory    be  : 
On   earth  be  glorious   peace   abroad, 
and    men   his    favour   fee. 
[   Long  Metre.  ] 
LORY  be  to  The  moft  High  GOD, 
J.    On  high  the  higher*.  Glory  be  ! 
And  peace  on    all  the  earth  abroad, 

To  isea-his-bwuadltfs  favour  free. 

J*XJKM 


304    LUKE  ii.  MAT.  vi.  REV.  iv. 

LUKE   II.    29,  30. 

The  Song  of  Simeon,  upon  taking  the  Child  Jesus 

into  his  Arms  in  the  Temple. 

29  T     ORD,  let   me   now  depart   in   peace, 

J A  Who   have    thy  waiting  fervant  been, 

According  to   thy  word  !    for  now 

30  Mine  eyes    have    thy   falvation  feen  ! 

31  Which   Thou   haft  wondroufly  prepar'd, 
And  mown   before  all   people's   face  ; 

32  A   light   to    all    the    Gentile  world, 
The   glory    of  thine   Ifr'el's   race  ! 

MATTHEW  VI.    9—13. 
The  Lord's  Prayer, 
9  /~\UR.   Father,   who   in   heav'n    art   feen, 
\^J  In  brighteft   love    and    majefty  ; 
Let    all   the    univerfe  confpire 
Thy    glorious  name   to  fanclify. 

10  O    let   thy  promis'd   kingdom    come 
Of  grace  and  glory   from   above  : 
And  let  thy   will   be  done  on  earth 
As    'tis   in   heav'n  with  joy   and  love. 

1 1  Give  us    this    day  our   daily  bread  : 

12  Our  debts    to   thee   forgive  and   blot, 
As    we   cur   debtors   free  forgive  : 

13  Into  temptation  lead   us   not, 
But   us    from    ev'ry   evil    fave  : 
For    thine    the    univerfal    reign, 
The   pow'r  and    glory    always   was, 
Is,  and   mall   ever   be  :     AMEN. 

REVELATIONS    IV.  8,  9. 

Tie  Song  eft  he  Four  glorious  Living  Creatures 

before  the  Throne. 

8  r\  Holy  !  "holy  !  holy  LORD  ! 
\J  th'  Almighty  GOD  alone  ! 
Who  was,  and  is,  and  art  to  come: 

9  who   fitteft    on  the   throne  : 
And    who    for    ever,    ever    liv'it  ! 

we    render    thanks    to    Thee  : 
To   Thee   all    honour,   glory  yield : 
aor  ever  ceaie  fi:all  we.  Ver,  11. 


REVELATIONS  v.        305 

Ver.    11. 
The  Refponjive  Song  of  the  Twenty  four  Elders, 
lir.g  d&wn their Crcmtu  before  tkeThrone. 
j  r    T     ORD,  Thou   ail   honour,  glory,   pow'r, 

J i      art    worthy  to  receive, 

From    ev'ry   creature  :   for    to    all 

Thou  didft  their  Being  give. 
Yea   all  things  thro*  the  Univerfe 

at  firft  created    were 
For    thine    own    pleafure,  and  for    this 
they    all    continued    are. 

R  E  V.    V.    9.   10. 
To  the  Lord  Jesus,  the  Lamb  of  God,   the  Song 
cf  the  Univerfal   Church. 
9  r  j  ^HOU  worthy  art    to  take  the   Book 
JL        from  Him   upon   the   throne, 
And    open    all   the    feals  thereof, 

and    none    but   Thou  alone. 
For   Thou   for   guilty  men   waft  flain, 

haft    bought  us   by   thy  blood  ; 
From    ev'ry   people,   nation,   tongue, 
redeem'd    us    all.  to    GOD. 
10  Yea  Thou    haft    made    and   raifed  us 
ev'n  kings  and    priefts  to  be, 
To  minifter    before  cur  GOD  : 
and  reign  on  earth  mall   we. 
Ver.  it. 
The  Rsfponfive  Song  of  the  Four  Living  Creatures, 
77; /Twenty  four  Elders,  a nd  M ult itudesofAngdz. 

THE  Lamb    is    worthy    that    was    (lain, 
all    might   and  wealth  to   have, 
And    wifdom,    honour,    glory,    pow'r, 
and  praifes   to    receive. 
Ver.   13. 
The  chfng  Song  of  all  the  Creatures   in  Heaven, 
on  Earth,  under  the  Earth, and  in  the  Sea,  together. 

TO  Him    who   (its    upon   the   throne, 
and    to    the    Lamb    therefore, 
Be   blefling,    honour,    glory,   pow'r, 

ever  and  evermore.  REV. 


$€>6   REVELATIONS  vii.xv.xix. 

REV.     VII.  10. 

*The  grateful  Song  of  the  innumsrahle  Multitudes 
of  Saints  before  the  Throne  is  the  Lamb. 

TO   our   moll   glorious    GOD   on  high, 
who    fits    upon    the  throne, 
And  to    the   Lam1!,    fa'Ivatioff,  we 
afcribe,    as    due,    alone  ! 
Ver.  12.  The  Refponjtvt  Song  of  all   the   Angels, 
Elders,    aud  Living  Creatures,  together. 

AMEN  '!  pow'r,  wifdom,  might  and  thanks, 
all    bleiiing,   honour    then, 
.And    glory  ever  be    afcrib'd 
to   our   great    GOD,    Amen. 
'REV.  XV.  3,4.  the  Song  <?/Mofes  6  of  the  Lamb, 
fung  by  the    S.int-s  in  Triumph. 

3  f~\   LORD,    Almighty   GOD  !  thy  works 
\^r      both    great   and   wondrous   are : 

Juft   king    of   faints,    and  true   thy  way: 

4  who   fhall    not   Thee    revere! 

And   glorify   thy    name,   O    LORD  ! 

who  holy  art   alone  : 
"For  nations    all    fhall    worfliip   Thee  ; 

whofe  judgments  now  are    known. 

XIX.  1,2.    The  Song  of  the  Multitudes  in  Heaven* 

1  (~^\  Hallelujah  !  honour,  pow'r, 
\_y  Salvation    and   all   glory   give, 
Give  to  the  LORD    our  GOD    alone, 
That    all  his   dues  he   may  receive. 

2  For  true    and  juft   his  judgments  are : 

On   the  great  whore  hath  judgment  wrought, 

Who  with   her  fornication   had 

On    all   the  earth  corruption  brought. 

Of  all  who  ferv'd  Him  to  the  death 
The  blood  fhe  fhed  aveng'd  hath  He  ; 
Aveng'd  on  her,  and  crowned  them. 
Amen  !  fing  Hallelujah  ye  ! 

HYMNS, 


t  307  ] 
HYMNS 

Which  are  not  Vcrjions   of  the  Scriptures,  hut 

Pious  Songs    derived  from  them. 

By  Dr.W atts  and  Others. 

I.    The  Fall  of  Angels  and  Men. 

WHEN  the  Great  Builder  arch'd  the  Skies, 
And  form'd  all  Nature  with  a  word, 
The  joyful  Cherubs  tun'd   his  Praife^ 
And    ev'ry   bending  Throne  ador'd. 
High   in   the    midit   of  all   the  Throng 
Satan   a  tall   Arch-Angel  fate, 
Amongft    the    Morning  Stars    he  fung, 
'Till  Sin  deftroy'd   his    Heav'nly   State. 

.3  'Twas  Sin  that  htrrl'd   him  from  his  Throne  * 
Grov'iing   in  Fire   the   Rebel   lies  : 
How  art  thou  funk   in  darknefs    donvn. 
Son  of  this  Morning  from   the   Skies  ! 
And  thus   our  tnvo  Jirfl   Parents  ftoocf, 
'Till  S'n   denTd    the  happy   Irhct; 
They  loft  their  Garden    and  their    God, 
And  ruin' d  all  their  unborn  race. 

3  So  fprung   the  Plague  from    Adan?%   BowV, 
And   fpread    Deftruclion  all    abroad, 

Sin,   the    curs'd   Name,   that  in    one  Hour 
Spoil'd   fix   Days  Labour  of  a  God. 
Tremble,   my   Soul,  and  mourn   for  Grief, 
That  fuch  a   Foe   mould  feize  thy  Breaft  5 
Fly   to  thy  Lord  for    quick    Relief: 
Oh  !   may  he  flay  this  treach'rous  Gueft. 

4  Then   to   thy  Throne,  Victorious  King, 
Then   to   thy  Throne   our    Shouts  (hall  rife, 
Thine  everlafting  Arm  we  fing, 

For  Sin,  the  Moniier,  bleeds  and   dies. 

II.  Th* 


3o8  HYMN    II.  III. 

II.  The  Firft  and  Second   Adam. 
ACKWARD  with  humble  Shame  we  look 
on    our    Original  ; 
How  is   our  Nature   da&M  and   broke 

in   cur    flrft  Father's    Fall  ! 
To  all  that's   Good   averfc    and  blind, 

but  prone   to  all    that's  ill ; 
What  dreadful   Daiknefs    veils    our  Mind  ! 
how    obilinate    our    Will/ 

2  Conceived  in  Sin  (O  wretched  State  !) 

before' we    draw  our  Breath; 
The    firft  young  Palfe  begins  to    beat 

iniquity  and  Death. 
How  ftrong   in  our    degen'rate   Blood 

the   old   Corruption   reigns, 
And  mingling  with  the  crooked  Flood, 

wanders  through    all  our    Veins  ! 

3  Wild  and    unwholcfome    as    the  Root 

will   all   the  Branches   be  ; 
How   can   we    hope  for  living   Fruit 

from    fuch   a   deadly  Tree? 
What  mortal  Pow'r   from   Things   unclean 

can  pure  Productions   bring? 
Who   can    command  a  vital    flream 

from  an   infedted    Spring  ? 

4  Yet  mighty   God,   thy   wond'rous  Love 

can  make  our  Nature  clean, 
While  Chrift  and  Grace  prevail  above 

the   Tempter,  Death  and  Sin. 
The    Second  Adam   fha.ll   reftore 

the  Ruins  of  the  Firft  ; 
Hcfanna   to   that  Sov'reign    Pow'r, 

that  new  creates   our  Duft  ! 

III.     The  Deity  and  Humanity  ^/"Christ 
%   "C1  'ER  the  blue  Heav'ns  were  ftretch'd  abroad, 
K    J  From  Everlafting   was  the  Word ; 
With  God  He  was  ;   the  word  was  God, 
And  muft  divinely  be   ador'd.  By 


HYMN    IV.  309 

By   His   own  Pow'r   were   all  Things   made, 
By   Him  fupported  all  Things  fland  j 
He  is    the    whole    Creation  s  Head, 
And  Angels  fly  at  his  Command. 

2  E'er  Sin  was  born   or  Satan   fdl, 
He  led  the  Hoft  of  Morning   Stars  ; 
{Thy  Generation  who  can  tell, 

Or  count  the  Number  of  thy  Years  ?) 
But  lo,  He  leaves  thofe   heavenly  Forms, 
The   Word   defcends    and  dwells  in    Clay, 
That   He   may  hold   Conrerfe  with  Worms, 
Drefs'd  in  fdch  feeble  Flefh   as  they. 

3  Mpttals  with  joy  beheld   his   Face, 
7V   Eternal  Father's  only  Son  ; 

How  full  of  Truth  !    how   full  of  Grace  ! 
When   thro*    his    Eyes  the  God-head   (hone  ! 
A,rch-Angels  leave   their   high  Abode, 
To  learn    new    Myft'ries  here  and  tell 
The  Loves  of  our   defcending  God, 
The  Glories   of  Emanuel. 

IV.     The  Nativity  ^/Christ. 
EHOLD     the  Grace  appears, 
the  Promife  is  fulfill 'd  ; 
Mary,   the    wond'rous   Virgin    bears, 

and    Jefus  is  the    Child. 
The  Lord,   the    Higheft    God, 

calls  him    his  only    Son; 
He   bids    Him    rule   the    Lands   abroad, 
and    gives  Him   David'%   Throne. 

2  O'er  Jacob    mail  he   reign 

with  a   peculiar  Sway  ; 
The  Nations  mall  his   Grace    obtain, 

His  Kingdom  ne'er  decay. 
To   bring    the  glorious    News, 

a  heavenly   Form  appears : 
He   tells  the   Shepherds   of  their  Joys, 

and  banifhes  their  Eears. 


; 
3io  HYMN    V. 

3  Go  humble  Swains  faid   he, 

to  David's  City  fly  ; 
The  promis'd  Infant ',    born   To-Day, 

doth  in  a  Manger   lie. 
With  Looks    and    Hearts  Jerene 

go    vijit    Chrifl  your    King  ; 
And  ftrait   a  flaming  Troop  was  feen  : 

the   Shepherds,  heard  them   ling, 

4  Glory    to  God  on  High  ! 

and  heavenly    Peace  on    Earth, 
Good-ivill   to   Men,   to  Angels    Joy, 

at   the    Redeemer's   Birth  ; 
In    Worfhip   To  Divine 

let  Saints  employ   their    Tongues, 
With  the   Celeftial    Hoft  we  join, 

and    loud   repeat   their  Songs. 

5  Glory   to   God  on   High! 

and   heav  nly    Peace  en   Earth, 
Good-will  to    Men,   to   Angels    Joy, 
at    the   Redeemer's  Birth  / 

V.  The  Humiliation  and  Exaltation  of  Christ. 
j  T  "X  7HAT  equal  Honours  mall    we  bring 
V  V    To  thee,  O  Lord  our  God,  the  Lamb, 
When    ail  the   Notes  that  Angels  flng 
Are   far   inferior   to    thy    Name  ? 
Worthy  is    He    that   once  was  flain, 
The   Prince   of  Peace  that  groan'd  and  dy*d* 
Worthy    to  rife,    and  live  and  reign 
At  his  Almighty  Father's  Side. 

j  Pow'r    and  Dominion   are  his   due, 
Who  ftood  condemned  at    Pilate's   Bar : 
Wifdom    belongs    to   Jefus  too, 
Tho'   he    was   chargM   with    Madnefs  here. 
All   Riches    are  his    native    Right, 
Yet  he  fuftain'd  amazing  Lofs;. 
To  him   afcribe  Eternal  Might, 
Who    left  his  Wea&neis   on  the  Croft. 

3  Hocofci 


HYMN    VI.  311 

$  Honour   immortal   rauft  be   paid, 
Inftead  of    Scandal   and  of  Scorn ; 
While    Glory   fMncs  around  his   Head, 
And    a   bright  Crown   without    a    '1  horn. 
BleiTings  for  ever   on  the  Lamb, 
Who   bore   the  Curfe   for  wretched  Men-  ? 
Let   Angels    found  his    facred  Name, 
And   ev'ry    Creature  fay,   Amen. 

VI.     The   Offices    0/ Christ. 

3    TOIN  all   the  Names   of  Love  and  PowV 
J    That    ever    Men    or  Angels  bore, 
All  are  too   mean   to  fpeak   his   Worth* 
Or  fet  ImmanueVs  Glory  forth. 
But    O   what   condefcending    Ways 
He  takes  to  teach  his  heav'nly  Grace  * 
My  Eyes  with  Joy  and  Wonder  fee 
What  Forms  of  Love  he  bears  for  me. 

2  The  Angel  of  the  Covenant  Hands 
With  his    Commiffion  in  his  Hands, 
Sent  from    his  Father's  milder  Throne 
To  make  the  great  Salvation  known.. 
Great  Prophet,  let  me  blefs  thy  Name  \ 
By  thee  the  joyful   Tidings   came, 

Of  Wrath  appeas'd,   of   Sins  forgiv'n, 
Of  Hell  fubdu'd,  and  Peace  with  Heav'n, 

3  My  bright  Example,  and  my  Guide, 
I  would  be  walking  near  thy  Side  % 

0  let    me  never  run  aflray, 
Nor  follow  the   forbidden    Way  ! 

1  bve  my  Shepherd,   he  mall  keep 
My  wand' ring  Soul  among  his  Sheep ; 
He  feeds  his  Flock,  he  calls  their  Names, 
And  in  his  Bofom  bears  the  Lambs. 

4  My  Surety  undertakes  the  Caufe, 
'Anfw 'ring  his  Father's  broken  Laws  5 
Behold  my  Soul  at  Freedom   fet, 
My  Surety  paid  the  dreadful  Dsbt. 


312  H   V   M   N     VII. 

Jefus  my  Great  High  Priejl  has  dy'd, 
I  feek  no  Sacrifice  befide  ; 
His  Blood  did  once  for  all  atone, 
And  now  it  pleads  before  the  Throne. 

5  My  Advocate  appears  on  high, 
The   Father  lays  his    Thunder  by  ; 
Not  all  that   Earth   or    Hell   can  fay 
Shall   turn    my    Father's    Heart   away. 
My    Lord,   my   Conqueror y  and  my   King, 
Thy    Scepter   and    thy  Sword  I  fmg-j 
Thine   is    the  Vict'ry,  and  I    fit 

A  joyful    Subject  at  thy   Feet. 

6  Afpire,  my  Soul,,  to  glorious  Deeds, 
The    Captai'ti  of  Salvation  leads  : 
March    on,   nor  fear  to  win   the    Day, 
Tho*  Death  and   Hell   obflruct  the   way. 
Should  Deah  and  Hell,  and  Pow'rs  unknown, 
Put   all  their  Forms  of  Mifchief  on, 

I  mall    be  fafe  ;  for   Chrift  difplays 
Salvation  in   moie    Sovereign  Ways. 

VII.    The  Offices  of  the  Holy  Spirit, 
i   Tj  TERNAL  Spirit  !  we  confefs, 

J_j   And   fing  the  Wonders  of  thy   Grace  j 
Thy   Pow'r  conveys  our  Bleffings  down 
From  God    the    Father    and  the   Son. 
Inlighten'd   by  thine  heav'nly  Ray, 
Our    Shades  and  Darknefs  turn  to  Day, 
Thine  inward  Teachings  make   us  know 
Our  Danger,  and    our    Refuge  too. 

2  Thy  Pow'r  and  Glory  works   within, 
And    breaks  the  Chains   of  reigning  Sin ; 
Doth  our  imperious  Lufts  fubdue, 
And  forms   our  wretched  Hearts  anew. 
The   troubled   Confcience  knows  thy   voic#, 
Thy   chearing  Words  awake   our   Joys, 
Thy    Words    allay  the  ftormy  Wind, 
And  calm   the  Surges  of  the  Mind. 


X 


m 


HYMN    VIII.  IX.  X.        313 

VIII.    Regeneration  neceJJ'ary. 

1  '^TOT  all  the  outward  Forms  on  Earth, 
J.^1      nor    Rites   that  God    has   giv'n, 
Nor    Will  of  Man,  nor  Blood,  nor  Birth, 

can  raife  a  Soul  to  Heav'n. 
The  fov* reign  Will  of   God  alone 

creates  us  Heirs  of  Grace: 
Born  in   the  Image  of  his   Son, 

a  new,  peculiar  Race. 

2  The  Spirit,  .like  fome  heav'nly  Wind, 

blows  on  the  Sons  of  Fleih, 
New-models  all  the  carnal  Mind, 

and  forms  the  Man  afrefh. 
Our  quicken 'cl  Souls  awake,  and   rife, 

from  the  long  Sleep  of  Death ; 
On  heav'nly  Things  we  fix  our  Eyes, 

and  praife  employs  our  Breath. 

IX.    Repentance  and  Faith  necejfary. 
IFE   and  immortal  Joys  are  giv'n 
f  To  Souls  that  mourn  the  Sins  they've  done  j 
Children  of  Wrath  made  Heirs  of  Heav'n, 
By  Faith  in  God's  eternal  Son. 
Wo  to  the  Wretch  that  never  felt 
The  inward  Pangs  of  pious  Grief, 
But  adds  to  all  his  crying  Guilt 
The    flubborrr  Sin  of  Unbelief. 
The  Law  condemns  the   Rebel   dead, 
Under  the  Wrath    of  God  he  lies  : 
He  feals   the  Curfe   on    his  own  Head, 
And  with  a  double  Vengeance  dies. 
X.     Difficulty  ofjincere  Converficn. 

STRAIT  is    the  Way,  the  Door   is  ftrait, 
trnt   leads   to   Joys  on   high  ; 
'lis  but  a  few  that  find   the   Gate, 

while  Crowds  miftake   and  die. 
■Beloved   Self   muft  be  deny'd, 

the   Mind    and  Will    renewed, 
paffion  fupprefsM,  and    Patience    try'd, 
and  rain  Defires   fubdu'd. 

P  s  Fkfh 


3t4  HYMN    XI.  XII. 

2  Flefli  is   a  dang'rous  Foe  to  Grace, 
where  it  prevails  and  rules  ; 
Flefli  muft   be  humbl'd,   Pride   abas'd, 

left   they   deftroy  our   Souls. 
The  Love  of  Gold  be  banifh  d  hence, 

(that  vile  Idolatry) 
And  ev'ry   Member,  ev'ry  Senfe, 
*        in  fweet  Subje&ion  lie. 

g  The  Tongue,  that  moll  unruly  PqwY, 

requires  a  flrong  Reflraint : 
We  muft  be   watchful  ev'ry   Hour, 

and  pray,  but  never  faint. 
Lord  !   can  a    feeble,   helplefs  Worm 

fulfil   a   Tafk  fo   hard? 
Thy  Grace   muft  all  my  Work  perform, 

and  give  the  free  Reward. 

XI.  Believe  and  befaved. 
X  ^WjOT  t0   condemn  the  Sons    of  Men 
X^l    Did  Chrift  the  Son  of  God   appear  ; 
No  Weapons  in  his  Hands  are  feen, 
No  flaming  Sword,   nor  Thunder  there. 
Such  was  the  Pity  of  our  God, 
He  JovM  the    Race  of  Man   fo  well, 
He  fent  his  Son  to  bear  our  Load 
Of  Sins,    and  fave  our  Souls  from  Hell. 

2  Sinners,  believe  the  Saviour's  Word, 
Truft   in  his    mighty  Name,  and  live  ; 
A   thoufand  Joys  his   lips  afford, 
His   Hands   a  thoufand   Bleflings   give* 
But   Vengeance  and  Damnation  lies 
On    Rebels,   who    refufe  the   Grace ; 
Who   God's   eternal   Son    defpife, 
The  hotteft  Hell  mall    be   their  Place. 

XII.  Faith  in  Christ  for  Pardon  6  Salification* 

I  TTOW  fad  our  State  by   Nature  is  ! 
J.  J.     our  Sin,  how  deep   it   ftains  ! 
And   Satan  binds   our    captive  Minds 

fail  in  his   flavim  Chains.  Eat 


HYMN     XI1L  3*5 

But  there's   a   Voice  of  Sovereign   Grace 

founds    from    the   facred   Word; 
Ho  !  ye  defpalring   Sinners    come, 

and  trujl    upon  the  Lord. 

2  My  Soul   obeys  th'  Almighty   Call, 

and    runs  to    this   Relief; 
I   would   believe  thy   Promife,    Lord ; 

oh  !   help    my   Unbelief. 
To  the   dear    Fountain   of  thy   Blood, 

iicarnate   God  I  fly; 
Here   let  me   warn  my   fpotted  foul 

from  Crimes  of  deepeft  Dye. 

3  Stretch  out   thine   Arm,  victorious  King, 

my  reigning  Sins  fubdue; 
Drive  the  old  Dragon   from  his  Seat, 

with  all  his  hellifti  Crew. 
A   guilty,   weak,  and  helplefs   Worm 

on  thy  kind  Arms  I  fall : 
Be    thou  my  Strength  and  Righteoufnefs, 

my   Jefujy  and   my   All. 

XIII.  Jujlification  by  Faith*  not  by  Works. 

1  "Y  TAIN  are  the  Hopes  the  Sons  of  Men 

V       on  their  own  Works  have  built  ; 
Their  Hearts  by  Nature  all  unclean, 

and   all  their  Actions  Guilt. 
Let  Jew  and  Gentile  flop  their  Mouths, 

without  a  murm'ring  Word,    N 
And  the  whole  Race  of  Adam  ftand 

guilty  before  the  Lord. 

2  In  vain   we  aik  God's   righteous  Law 

to  juflify  us   now. 
Since  to   convince   and  to   condemn 

is  all  the  Law  can  do. 
Jefus>  how  glorious  is  thy  Grace, 

when  in  thy  Name  we   trufl  ! 
Our  Faith  receives  Thy  Righteoufnefs, 

which  makes  the  Sinner  juft. 

P  2  XIV. 


316        HYMN    XIV.  XV. 

XIV.     Adoption, 
i  "OEHOLD  what   wond'rous   Grace 
13     the  Father   hath   beflow'd 
On   Sinners   of  a   Mortal  Race, 
to   call   them   Sons    of  God  ! 
"Tis  no  furprizing    Thing, 

that  we  mould  be  unknown ; 
The    Jetvt/1?  World   knew  not  their  King, 
God's   everlafting    Son  : 

2  Nor   doth  it  yet  appear 

how   great  we    muft   be    made ; 
But  when   we   fee  our  Saviour  "here, 

we   ihall   be  like   our   Head. 
A  Hope    fo   much   divine 

may  Trials    well  endure, 
May   purge  our    Souls  from  Senfe   and  Sin, 

as    Chrift  the    Lord  is  pure. 

3  If  in   my  Father's   Love 

I  fhare  a   filial    Part, 
Send  down  thy    Spirit,  like  a  Dove, 

to    reft  upon  my  Heart. 
V/e  would   no  longer  lie 

like  Slaves  beneath    the   Throne; 
My    Faith    mail    Abba   Father    cry, 

and    thou   the  Kindred   own. 
XV.    Baptifm   of  grown  Perfons. 
I  »r"  ■  ^  WAS  the   Commiflion   of  our   Lord, 

JL        Co,   teach  the    Nations^  and  Baptize* 
The   Nations    have    receiv'd   the   Word,, 
Since  he    afcended  to    the    Skies. 
He   fits  upon  th*   eternal   Hills, 
With   Grace   and   P.irdon    in   his  Hands, 
And  fends   his    Cev'nant,  with   the   Seals, 
To   blefs  the  People   of  all   Lands. 
,,  Repent,  and  be    baptized,   he   faith, 
For  the   Remifficn  of  your    Sins  ; 
And   thus  our    Senfe  aflifts   our    Faith 
$ji4  iliows  us  what  Jiis  Gofpel   means. 


HYMN    XVI.  317 

Our  Souls  he  wafhes  in  his  Blood, 
As  Water  makes  the  Body  clean  ; 
And  the  gocd  Spirit  from  our  God 
Defcends  like    purifying   Rain. 

3  Thus  we   engage   our   felvts    to  thee, 
And  feal   cur   Cov'nant    with   the    Lord  ; 
O    may   the  Great  Eternal  Three 
In    Heav'n   our  folernn    Vows   record  I 

XVI.       Baptifm   of  Children, 

1  T  TOW  large  Thy  Covenant    of  Grace 
±1      to    Abr\vn  and  his  Seed  !  = 

«  I'll  be    a  GOD   to    thee  and   thefi 
'   who    from   thy  Loins    proceed,' 

JESUS   the  ancient   Word   conjrms, 
■  how*d   wond'rous    Tenrjernefs  ; 

He  tock  young  Children    in   his  Atn* 
and   them  did   kindly    blefs. 

2  GentUet    by   Nature,  we  belong'/! 

to   the   wild  Olive  Wood, 
Grace   took  us    from    the  barren  Tfee 

and   grafts    us   on  the  Gocd. 
With  the  fame  Bleffing  Grace  endows 

the    Gentile  as  the    Je-iv  ; 
That  ftill  if  holy  be   the    Root, 

fueh    are  the  Branches    too. 

3  The  Words  of  Thy  extenfive  Love 

from  Age   to   Age  endure  ; 
The   Angel    of  the   Covnant  cam?, 

and  feal'd  the   Bleffing  fure  : 
O   GOD  !    how   conftant  are  Thy  Way?, 

thy   Love  endures    the   fame ; 
Thy  Promife    is  to    us   and   cur's-, 

we   mark   them   with   Thy  Name. 

4  O  dear  Redeemer  !  take  them  then, 

and  warn   them   in   Thy   Blood-, 

O   pour  Thy   Spirit  out  on   them, 

and  make  them  pure  for   GOD, 

P  3  Thpn 


318       HYMN    XVII.  XVIII. 

Then   if  they  live,  they*l   ferve  thy  Caufe, 

and  Glory  to   Thee   bring ; 
And   when   they   die,   to  Heav'n  they'l  rife, 

and   endlefs   Praifes   fing. 

XVII.     A   Living   and  a  Dead  Faith, 
i  *]i  >f  Iiraken   Souls  !    that   dream  of  Heav'n, 
xVA     and   make  their  empty  Boail 
Of  inward    Joys,    and  Sins   forgiv'n, 

while    they  are  Slaves  to  Lull:. 
Vain    are  our    Fancies,  airy  Flights, 

if  Faith    be   cold  and  dead, 
None    but   a   living    Pow'r   unites 
to  Chrijl  the  living   Head. 

2  'Tis   Faith  that  changes  all   the   Heart, 

Ms  Faith   that   works   by   Love; 
That    bids   all   finful  Joys   depart, 

and  lifts    the    Thoughts  above. 
•'Tis  Faith    that  conquers   Earth   and  Hell, 

by   a  celeftlal    Pow'r  • 
This  is  the  Grace  that   mall   prevail 

in    the  decilive   Hour. 

3  Fat  A  .mult  obey   her   Father's  Will, 

as    well    as    truil  his  Grace  ; 
A   pard'ning  God    is  jealous    ilili 

for    his    own   Holinefs. 
When   from   the   Curfe  he   fets   us   free, 

he    makes    our  Natures   clean, 
Nor    would    He  fend  his  Son  to   be 

the  Miniiter  of  Sin. 

4  His    Spirit   purifies   our   Frame, 

and   feals    our  Peace   with    God ; 
Jcfus,  and   his   Salvation    came 
by  Water   and   by   Blood. 

XVIII.  Example   of  Christ, 
i  AyfY  dear  Redeemer,  and  my  Lord, 
XVJL.  I    read  my   Duty  in  thy   Word  ; 
But  in    thy   Life  the    Law    appears, 
Drawn  cut  in  living  Characters.  Such 


HYMN    XIX.  XX.         319 

Such  was  thy  Truth,  and  fuch  thy   Zeal, 
Such  Def'rence   to   thy  Father's  Will, 
Such  Love,    and  Meeknefs  fo   divine, 

I  would   tranfcribe,   and  make  them    mine. 
2  Cold   Mountains,   and   the    Midnight    Air, 

Witnefs'd  the    Fervour    of  thy    Pray'r; 

The   Defart  thy  Temptations  knew, 

Thy    Conflict,    and    thy  Vi&'ry  too. 

Be   thou    my   Pattern  ;  make    me   bear 

More  of  thy   gracious  Image  here  ; 

Then   God   the  Judge  mall   own    my   Name 

Amongft  the  ^oli'wers  of  the  Lamb. 

XIX.    Love  to  COD  and  our  Neighbour. 
\   nr^HUS  faith  the  firft,  the  great  Command, 
JL      "  Let  all    thy   inward    Pow'rs    units 

II  To  love   thy  Maker,  and    thy  God, 
M  With   utmoil    Vigour   and    Delight. 

u  Then    mail   thy    Neighbour    next  in   Place 
*'  Share    thine    Affections    and    Eileem, 
•'  And   let    thy   Kindnefs   to    thy  (eW 
"  Meafure   and  rule  thy   Love  to  him." 
2  This   is  the   Senfe    that  Mofet  fpoke, 
This    did   the  Prophets   preach   and  prove  : 
For  want    of  this  the    Law  is    broke, 
And  the  whole  Law's  fulfilPd   by  Love. 
But    Oh  !    hfow  bafe  our   Paffions   are  ! 
How  cold  our   Charity   and  Zeal  ! 
Lord,   fill  our     Souls    with  heav'nly  Fire, 
Or  we   fhall  ne'er   perform  thy  Will. 

XX.    Love    and   Charity. 
1   1       ET  Pharifees  of  high  Efteem 
1    J     their  Faith  and  Zeal  declare, 
All  their  Religion  is  a  Dream, 
if  Love  be  wanting  there. 
Love   fuffers   long  with  patient  Eye, 

nor   is  provok'd  in   hafte, 
She   let's   the   prefent  Injury  die, 
and  long  forgets  the  pafs'd. 

P  4  2  Malice 


3io  H    Y   M   N    XXL 

2  Malice    and    Rage,    thofe    Fires '  of  Hell, 

me   quenches  with  her  tongue  ; 
Hopes,   and  believes,  and   thinks    no  III, 

tho'    fhe   endures   the  Wrong. 
She    nor  defires    nor   feeks  to  know 

the   Scandals   of  the  Time  ; 
Nor  looks   with  Pride   on    thofe   below, 

nor   envies   thofe  that  climb. 

3  She    fays   her    own   Advantage  by 

to   fefek   her   Neighbour's    Good  ; 
So   God's   own    Son    came  down    to  die, 

and   bought    our    Lives   wife  Blood. 
Love  is  the  Grace  that  keeps  her  Pow'r, 

in  all  the    Realms    above  ; 
There  Faith   and   Hope   are    known  no  more, 

but   Saints  for  ever  love. 

XXI.      The    Beatitudes. 

LEST   are    the  humble  Souls    that  fee 
Their   Enrptinefs  and   Poverty ; 
Treafures    of  Grace    to    them   are   giv'n, 
And   Crowns    of  Joy  laid  up    in   Heav'n. 
Bled   are   the  Men   of  broken   Heart, 
Who   mourn   for    Sin   with    inward  Smart ; 
The    Blood    of '  •  Cbrrji    divinely    flows, 
A  heaiirg  Balm    for    all   their    Wees. 

2  Bleft  are   the  Meek,   who   ftand    afar 
From   Rage  and   Paffion,   Noife   and  War; 
God    will   fecure  their    happy  State, 

And  plead  their  Caufe  againft  the  Great. 
Eleil   are    the    Souls    that    thirft    for    Grace, 
Hunger   and    long   for   Righteoufnefs ; 
They  mail    be   well   fupply'd    and  fed 
"Wit!!   living  Streams   and  living  Bread. 

3  Bleft   are    the    Men  whofe  Bowels    move 
And    melt  with  Sympathy  and  Love  ; 
From    Chriji    the  Lord    (hall  they  obtain 

-  Like    Sympathy   and  Love  again. 

Bleft 


HYMN    XXIT.  XXIII.       32; 

Bleft   are   the  pure,  whofe    Hearts   are    clean 
From    the  defiling    PcwYs   of  Sin  ; 
With   endlefs  Pleafurc  they    (hall   fee 
A  God  of  fpotlefs  Purity. 

4  Bleft  are  the  Men   of  peaceful   Life, 

Who   quench  the  Coals  of  growing  Strife  ; 
They  (hall  be   cali'd  the  Heirs  of  Blifs, 
The  Sons   of  God,   the  God  of  Peace. 
Bleft  are  the   Suff Vers  who   partake 
Of  Pain  and   Shame   for   Jefusy  fake v, 
Their  Souls  (hall   triumph  in  the  Lord, 
Glory  and  Joy  are  their   Reward. 

XXII.    Grace  and  Holinefs. 

1  QO  let  our  Lips  and  Lives   exprefs 
k3  The  holy  Gofpel  we  profefs  ; 

So  let  our  Works  and  Virtues  mine, 
To  prove  the  Doctrine   all  Divine. 
Thus  (hall  we  beft  proclaim   abroad 
The  Honours   of  our  Saviour  God  'r 
When  the  Salvation    reigns  within, 
And  Grace  fubdues  the  Pow'r  of  Sin. 

2  Our  Flefh  and  Senfe   muft  be  deny'd, 
Paffion  and  Envy,   Lull  and  Pride  ; 

While  Juftice,  Temp'rance,  Truth  and  Love, 
Our  inward  Piety  approve. 
Religion   bears    our   Spirits  up^ 
While  we  expect  that  blefTed  Hope, 
The  bright   Appearance  of  the  Lord, 
And  Faith  Hands  leaning  on  his  Word. 

XXIII.  Submijpon  to  Affliclivc  Providences, 

1  ^kTAKED   as  from  the  Earth  we  came, 
JL^I      and  crept  to  Life  at  firft, 
We    to    the  Earth    return   again, 

and  mingle  with   our    Duft. 
The  dear  Delights  we  here  enjoy, 

and   fondly  call    our    own, 
Are   but   fhort  Favours  borrowed   Nowy 
to   be   repaid   Anon. 

P  5  %  Tis 


322  HYMN     XXIV. 

^  'Tis   God   that   lifts   our  Comforts  high, 

or  finks   them  in  the   Grave, 
He  gives,   and   (blefTed  be  his  Name  !) 

he   takes   but  what  he  gave. 
Peace,  all  our  angry  Paffions  then, 

let    each  rebellious   Sigh 
Be   filent  at   his    Sov'reign  Will, 

and  evTry   Murmur   die. 

3  If  fmiling    Mercy  crown  our  hives, 
it's  NPraifes    mail    be  fpread, 
And  we'll  adore  the  Juftice  too 
that  ftrikes  our  Comforts  dead. 

XXIV.  The  Lord's  Supper  Inftituted. 

j  "TpWAS  on  that  dark,  that  doleful  Nighr, 
X     When  Pow'rs  of  Earth  and  Hell  arofe 
Againil  the   Son   of  God's    Delight, 
And   Friends  betray'd  him   to   his  Foes. 
Eefore   the  mournful  Scene  began, 
He   took   the  Bread,  and  blefs'd  and   brake  : 
What    Love  thro'    all    his    Actions   ran  f    . 
What  wond'rous  Words  of  Grace  he   fpake  ? 

2  This    is    my    Body,  broke  for   Sirry 
Receive   and  eat   the  living   Food : 
Then   took  the   Cup,  and  blefs'd   the   Wine; 
*Ti*  the  New  Covenant  in    my   Blood. 
For  us   his   Hem   with  Nails   was    torn, 
He  bore  the    Scourge,  he  felt  the  Thora  r 
And  Juftice  ponr'd   upon  his  Head 
It's  heavy  Vengeance  in  our  Stead:. 

I  For  us  his  vital  Blood  he  fpilt, 
To   buy  the  Pardon  of  our  Guilt  *r 
When,  for  black  Crimes  of  biggeft  Size, 
He  gave  his   Soul  a  Sacrifice. 
Do  this,  he  cry'd,   7/7/  Time  fhall  end,. 
In  Memory  of  your  dying  Friend  ; 
Meet  tit  my   Table   and   record 
The  have  of  your  (ttfarftd  Lard* 


«! 


HYMN     XXV.  343 

4  JefuSi  thy  Feaft  we  celebrate, 

We  (hew.  thy   Death,   we  fing  thy  Name, 
'Till   thou   return    and  we  mull  eat 
The   Marriage    Supper  of  the  Lamb. 

XXV.     The  bitter  Sufferings  c/Chrkt. 

1   /^OME  let   us  all   who   here   have   feen* 
V^   And  tailed   of  our   Saviour's  grace, 
From    his  blefs'd  table   to    his   crofs, 
In   thought,  his  weary  footfleps  trace. 
Into   the    garden   firft   he  goes, 
Where  mortal    fears   befet   him  round; 
Sin's   prefiing   weight  overwhelms   his  fouij 
And   finks  his  body  to   the   ground. 

t  Here,   proftrate  as   he  lies,  he  groans, 
Pouring  out  Pray'rs    with   fervent   Cries, 
'Till   he  fweats  drops   of  Blood,  to   mix 
With   Floods   that  ifFue   from   his  Eyes>> 
Yet   are  his    Sorrows    but   begun  y 
By  one  Difciple   He's  betray'd, 
Another  Him  with  Oaths  denies, 
The  reft   all   run  like   flieep  afraid. 

3  Falfly  aceus'd,  He's  doom'd   to  die  ; 
Loaded  with  blafphemy   and  fcorn, 
He's   rudely   buffeted   and  bound, 
His  naked  fiefh  with  fcourges  torn. 
His  temples  wear  a  wreath  of  thorns^ 
Vile    Spitting  his  pure  face  profanes; 
His   weary   moulders  bear   a   crofs, 
On  which    He  fuifers   morral   pains. 

4  Between   two   thieves  He   ling'ring   die:, 
While    thoufand    tortures  on   Him  meet;: 
His  heart's  difToIv'd  within ;  his    blood 
Flows    out   in   ft  reams   from    hands-  and'  feetr*- 
Thefe  ftr earns,  join'd  with   the  other   flood 
That  gufti'd  out   from  his  wounded  fider 
Compofe   a  fov'reign  bath,  wherein 

The  leprous  Swl  is  purify'd* 


324      HYMN    XXVI.  XXVII. 

XXVI.     The  Love  li  fiefs  of  afuffering  Jesus. 
i   rTT^HOU    art   all  Love,  my  deareft  Lord, 
X        thou   art  all  lovely   too  : 
Thy  Love   I  at   thy   Table   tafte, 

thy    Lovelinefs   I  view. 
Eut   Thou  more  lovely  art    to  me 
for   all    that   thou    haft  born  :       4 
Each  Cloud    fets  off  thy   Luilre  more; 
thee  all    thy    Scars    adorn. 

2  Thy   Garments    tinchir'd    with   thy    Blood ) 

the    bell   and   nobleft  Dye, 
Out-fiibe   the  Robes   that  Princes   wear; 

thy   Thorns    their  Gems    out-vie. 
That  I    may  be   all  Love  to  thee, 

r.nd  lovely   like  thee  too, 

0  cleanfe  me  with  thy  precious    Blood, 
and  me  thy   Beauty   fliew. 

3  My  former  Vows   I  new  renew  r 

O  Lord,   as    thou    art  mine  ; 

1  freely  give   my  Heart   to    thee, 
for    ever  V\\   he   thine. 

XXVII.     Christ   finifhi?ig    his    Pur  chafe    ef 
Redemption. 

I   ^'TTMS   finifVd  the  Redeemer  cries  ; 

JL     Then  lowly   bows  his  fainting   Head; 
And  foon  th'  expiring   Sacrifice 
Sinks  to  the  Regions   of  the  Dead* 
*Tis  done — the  mighty  Work  is  done  L 
For   Men  and  Angels  much  too  great ; 
Which  none,  but  God's  eternal  Sony 
Or  would  attempt,  or  could  complete^ 

%  'Tis  done, — hisTears,  his  Groans  and  Wounds,^ 
His  Sweat  and   Blood,   his   Pains    and   Toils. 
VicYry  with   deathlefs    Glory   crowns 
With  Trophies,  and.  triumphant  Spoils. 
The    Conqu'ror  falls   a  Sacrifice, 
HeavVs  jufl  Refentments  to  appeafe  r 
Juftice  with  Mercy  now  complies, 
Both,  with  the  Sinner's  Pardon  pleas'd. 

3  Once 


HYMN    XXVIII.  XXIX.      325 

3  Once  ke  was   dead  ;   now   lives    and    reigns 
Where   Angels   his    great    Deeds    proclaim : 
Let's  tell   our  Joys  in    pious    Strains, 
And   fpread   the    Glory   of  his   Name. 

XXVIII.    The  New  Covenant  in  the  Blood  of 
Christ. 

1  CT'HE    Promife  of  my  Father  s    Love 
■**      Jhall  ftand  for   ever  good  : 

He  faid,   and  gave  his  Soul  to  Death, 
and  feal'd  the  Grace  with  Blood. 

To  this   dear  Covenant   of  thy   Word 
I    fet   my  worthlefs    Name;, 

I  feal   th'   Engagement   to  my   Lord, 
and  make  my  humble  Claim. 

2  Thy  Light,  and  Strength,  and  pard'ning  Grace 

and   Glory    mall    be    mine  ; 
My   Life   and    Soul,   my  Heart   and   Fleih, 

and  all  my  Pow'rs   are  thine. 
I   call   that  Legacy   my   own 

which   Jefus    did  bequeath; 
JTwas  purchas'd   with  a  dying  Groan, 

and   ratify'd   in  Death. 

3  Sweet  is  the  Mem'ry  of  his   Name 

who  blefs'd  us  in   his   Will, 

And   to   his  Teftament  of  Love 

made  his  own  Life  the  Seal. 

XXIX.    The  Grace   of  the  divine  Father,  and 
Fulnefs   of  Christ. 

1    TEHOVAH,   we  in  Hymns  of  Praife 
J      thy  matchlefs  Grace  adore, 
That  Grace  that  gave  thy  only  Son  : 
what  could'ft  thou  give  us  more  I 
He's  all  in  all  :  His  Saints  in  Him 

divine  Perfection  view  : 
,jTis  of  his  Fulnefs  they  receive 
till  Grace  and  Glory  toe, 
:  2  He 


&6  HYMN    XXX. 

2  He  freely  gave  his  Blood,   the  Price 

of  our  eternal  Blifs  ; 
Since  no  lefs  could  atone  for    Sin, 

his  Love  could  give  no  lefs. 
He  in  the    Wine-prefs  of  thy  Wrath 

for  guilty  men  was  cruuVd  ; 
Humbled  himfelf  to   die,   and  laid 

his  Honour  in  the  Duft. 

3  That  we  might  at  his  Table  fit, 

and  be  replenifh'd  there, 
With  thefe  dear  Pledges  of  his  Grace, 
'till  we  his  Glory  mare. 

XXX.  The  Memorial  of  our  abftnt  Lord; 

I    ^pESUS  is  gone  above  the  Skies, 
J    Where  our  weak  Senfes  reach  him  not ; 
And  carnal  Objects  court  our  Eyes, 
To  thrufl  our  Saviour  from  our  Thought. 
He  knows  what  wand'ring  Hearts  we  have, 
Apt  to  forget  his  lovely  Face ; 
And,  to  refrefti  our  Minds,  he  gave 
Thefe  kind  Memorials  of  his  Grace. 

%  The  Lord  of  Life  this  Table  fpread, 
With  his  own  Fleih  and  dying  Blood, 
We  on  the  rich   Provifion  feed, 
And  tafte  the  Wine  and  blefs  the  God. 
Let  finful   Sweets  be  all  forgot, 
And  Earth  grow  lefs  in  our  Efteemj 
Chrift  and  his  Love  fill  ev'ry  Thought, 
And  Faith  and  Hope  be  fix'd  on  Him. 

3  While  He  is  abfent  from  our  Sight, 
*Tis  to  prepare  our  Souls  a  Place, 
That  we  may  dwell  in  heav'nly  Light, 
And  live  for  ever   near   his  Face. 
Our  Eyes  look  upv/ards  to  the  Hills, 
Whence  our  returning  Lord  mail  come ; 
We  wait  thy  Chariot's  haft'ning  Wheels, 
To  fetch  our  longing  Spirits  home,, 

*  ~      XXXI- 


HYMN    XXXI.  XXXII.      327 

XXXf.  Divine  Love  making  a  Feaft  and  calling  in 
the    Guefts. 
i  T  TOW  fweet  and  awful  is  the  Place 
J.  JL     with  Chrift  within  the  Doors, 
While   everlafting   Love  difplays 

the  cboiceft  of  her  Stores  ! 
Here  ev'ry  Bowel  of  our  God 

with  foft  Companion  rolls  ; 
Here  Peace  and  Pardon  bought  with  Blood, 
is  Food  for   dying  Souls. 

2  While  all  our  Hearts  and  all  our  Songs 

join  to  admire  the  Feaft, 
Each  of  us  cry,  with  thankful  Tongues, 

"  Lord,  why  was  I  a  Gueft  ? 
(f  Why  was  I  made  to  hear  thy  Voice, 

"  and  enter  while  there's  Room  • 
"  When  Thoufands  make  a  wretched  Choice, 

"  arid  rather  ftarve  than  come  ?'*'• 

3  'Twas  the  fame  Lore  that  fpread  the  Feaft, 

that  fweetly  fore'd   us  in  ; 
Elfe  we  had  ftill  refus'd  to  tafte, 

and  perifh'd  in  our  Sin. 
Pity  the  Nations,  O   our  God  I 

conftrain   the  Earth  to   come  ; 
Scud  thy  victorious  Word  abroad,. 

and  bring  the  Strangers  home. 

4  We  long  to  fee  thy  Churches  full, 

that  all  the  chofen  Race 
May  with  one  Voice,  and  Heart,  and  Soul;, 
fing  thy  redeeming  Grace. 

XXXII.   Feafting  on  Christ  at  his  Tahte- 
1  T  TOW  glorious  is   the  h6ly  Place^ 
JL  X     where  Bread  of  Life  is  giv'n  I 
This  furely  is-  the  Houfe  of  God' ! 

this  is  the  Gate  of  Heav'n  ? 
Jefuiy  the  Mafter  of  the  Feaft, 
vouchfafes  his  Prefence  here  j 
The  Cup  of  Blefling  pafTes  round. 


328 


HYMN    XXXII I. 


2  Hence  faithlefs  Doubts,  defponding  Fears, 

no  more  our  joys  moleft  : 
Hence  all  vain  Thoughts,  and  vile  Defires 

no  more   our  Souls  infefr.. 
Can  Sinners   doubt  their  Pardon,  when 

their  Judge  upon  them  fmiles  ? 
Can  they   ungratefully   rebel, 

whom  Jefus  reconciles  ? 

3  The  Merit  of  his  Blood  can  calm 

the  Soul  with  Guilt  oppreft  : 
The  Torments  of  his  Crofs  can  make 

the  Soul  all   Sin  deteft. 
O  may  our  Sins,  that  made   thee  bleed, 

all  on   thy   Crofs  expire  i 
O  may  the  Joys  thy  Banquet   gives, 

equal  our   warm    Defire  ! 

4  So  (hall   we  mount   upon   the  Wings 

of  chearful   Hope  and  Love  ; 
And  here  begin    the    Songs  that  we 
mall  better  fing   above. 

XXXIII.  Communion  with  Christ  and  Saints* 

i    yESUS   invites  his   Saints 
J      to  meet   around  his   Board  ; 
Here   pardon'd   Rebels  fit   and   hold 

Communion   with  their  Lord. 
For  Food   he    gives   his   Flefh ; 

he  bids    us  drink  his  Blood : 
Amazing   Favour  1    matchlefs   Grace 

of  our  defcending  God  ! 

2  This  holy  Bread   and  Wine 

maintains  our   fainting   Breath, 
By   Union  with   our  living  Lord, 

and  Int'reft  in  his   Death. 
Our   heav'nly  Father  calls 

Chrift   and   his    Members   one ; 
We  the  young  Children  of  his   Le?e, 
aad  he  die  firft-bora  §oa, 

3  We 


HYMN    XXXIV.  3J? 

3  We   are  but   fev'ral    Parts 

of  the    fame    broken  Bread  ; 
One  Body  hath  it's   fev'ral   Limbs, 

but   Jefus  is   the    Head. 
Let    all    cur   Pow'rs   be  join'd, 

his  '  glorious  Name  to  raife  ; 
Pleafuie    and  Love   fill   ev'ry  Mind, 

and   ev'ry  Voice   be  Praife. 

XXXIV.  The  Death  o/C  h  ri  s  t  is  the  Death  of  Sin, 

1  ^"^OME    let    us    go  and   die  with  him, 
V^     Who  was    content  to   die  for   us; 
Let's  -wound   and  crucify   thofe   Sins 
That  nail'd  our    Saviour  to  his   Crofs. 
May   holy   Indignation    raife 

A  jufb  Revenge  in  ev'ry  Bread  I 
May    ev'ry   Soul    that    Jesus    loves 
The   very  Thought  of   Sin   deteft  ! 

2  Hence  all  ye  viprous  Brood  of  Vice, 
That  bring-  a  Train  of  endlefs  Woes ; 
O   how  I  hate  you  mortally, 

As   mine,  and  as  my    Saviour  Y  Foes  J 
Hence  ,  all   your    vain  deluding  Arts, 
Which   the  unwary    Soul  beguile  ; 
Thefe   Ivave   no   Charms   for   One   that   fees 
Redeeming  Mercy  on  him  fmile. 

3  My   Robes,  when  wafh'd   in    facred   Blood9 
Shall  I   again   with  Blots  deface  ? 

My  Soul,  by  Grace  advanc'd  to  Heav'n, 

Shall    I    again  to  Hell  debafe  ? 

Prevent   me    O    almighty  Grace  1 

Nor  let  me   e'er  fo  treacherous  prove* 

To    crucify  my  Lord    afrefh, 

And  render  Hate  for  all   his  Love  I 

4  His  Life    the  Model  be   of  mine  ; 

His  Word  the  Rule  to  guide  my  Way; 
His  Crofs  the  Death  of  all  my  Crimes  ; 
His   Love  the   Subject  of  my   Praife. 

XXXV. 


33o     HYMN   XXXV.  XXXVI. 

XXXV.  Crucifixion  to  the  World  by  the  Death  of 

Christ. 

1  TT7HEN   I   furvey    the  wond'rous   Crofs 

VV    On    which  the    Prince   of  Glory  dy'd, 
My  richefr.  Gain    I  count  but  Lofs, 
And  pour  Contempt  on    all   my  Pride. 
Forbid   it,    Lord,    that    I    mould   boaft 
Save   in  the  Death  of  Chriji   my   God  : 
All   the   vain   Things  that  charm  me  molt, 
I   facrifice  them   to    his   Blood. 

2  See  from  his  Head,  his  Hands,  his   Feet, 
Sorrow   and   Love   flow   mingled   down  ! 
Did  e'er  fuch  Love  and  Sorrow  meet  ? 
Or   Thorns    compofe   fo   rich    a   Crown  ? 
His   dying  Crimfon,  like  a  Robe, 
Spreads    o'er  his  Body  on   the  Tree  % 
Then    am   I    dead   to  all    the   Globe, 
And  all  the   Globe  13   dead   to  me. 

3  Were  the  whole   Realm  of  Nature  mine, 
That  were   a   Prefent   far   too  fmall: 
Love   fo   amazing,  fo  divine, 
Demands  my   Soul,  my  Life,  my  AH. 

XXXVI.  Pardon  and  Strength  from  Christ, 
j  TTATHER,  we   wait  to  feel   thy   Grace, 

1/      to  fee  thy  Glories   mine  ; 

The  Lord  will   his  own  Table   blefs, 

and   make   the    Feaft  divine. 
We   touch,  we   tafte  the  heav'nly  Bread, 

we  drink  the  facred  Cup  ; 
With    outward  Forms  onr   Senfe  fs   fe&> 

our   Souls  rejoice  in   Hope. 

%  We   (hall  appear   before  the  Throne 

of  our   forgiving  God, 
Drefs'd   in  the  Garments  of  his  Son, 

and  fprinkled  with  his  Blood. 
We  mall  be  flrong  to  run  the  Race, 

and  climb  the  upper  Sky ; 
Chriji  will  provide  our  Souls  with  Grace, 

He  bought  a  large  Supply.  3  L«t 


HYMN  XXXVII.  XXXVIII.    331 

3  Let  us  indulge  a  chearful  Frame, 
for  Joy  becomes  a  Feafl ; 
We  love  the  Mem'ry  of  his  Name, 
more  than  the  Wine  we  tafte. 

XXXVII.  Grace  andGlory  by  the  Death  <j/Christ« 

1  CHITTING  around  our  Father's  Board, 
k3     we  raife  our  tuneful  Breath  ; 

Our  Faith   beholds  her  dying  Lord, 

and  dooms  our  Sins  to  Death. 
We  fee  the  Blood  of  Jefus  flied, 

whence  all  our  Pardons  rife  ; 
The  Sinner  views  th'  Atonement  made, 

and  loves  the  Sacrifice. 

2  Thy  cruel  Thorns,   thy  fhameful  Crofs, 

procure  us  heav'nly  Crowns  : 
Our-higheft  Gain   fprings  from  thy  Lofs  ; 

our  Healing  from  thy  Wounds. 
Ch  !   'tis  impofiible    that    we 

who  dwell  in  feeble  Clay, 
Should  equal  SufPrings  bear  for  Thee, 

or  equal  Thanks  repay. 

XXXVIII.  The  View  of  Divine  Glories  excite  out 

Graces. 

1  T  TOW  are  thy  Gforie3  here  difpIayM, 

L  Great  God  I   how  bright  they  mine, 
While,  at  thy  Word,  we  eat  the  Bread, 

and  drink  the  fragrant  Wine  ! 
Here  thy  revenging  Juftice  Hands, 

and  pleads  it's  dreadful  Caufe  ; 
Here  faving  Mercy  fpreads  her  Hands., 

like  Jefus  on  the  Crofs. 

2  Thy  Saints  attend   with  ev'ry  Graee, 

on  this   great  Sacrifice; 
And  love  appears  with  chearful   Face, 

and  Faith  with  fixed  Eyes. 
Our  Hope   in  waiting  Pofture  (its, 

to  Heav*n  directs  her  Sight ; 
Here  ev'ry  warmer  Pailion   meets, 

and  warmer  Pow'rs  unite.  3  Zeal 


332  HYMN     XXXIX. 

3  Zeal  and  Revenge  perform  their  Part, 

and  riling  Sin  deitroy  ; 
Repentance  comes  with  aching  Heart, 

and  yet  excites  the  Joy. 
Dear  Saviour,  change  our  Faith  to  Sight, 

let  Sin   for  ever  die  ; 
Then  (hall  cur  Souls   be  all  Delight, 

and  ev'ry  Tear  be  dry. 

XXXIX.  A  pru  Song  to  t'e  Lamb  flain* 

i   T>  EHOLD  the  Glories  of  the  Lamb, 
_L3,     amidft  his  Father's  Throne  : 
Prepare  new   Honouis   for  his    Name, 

and  Songs  before  unknown. 
Let  Elders  worfnip  at  his   Feet, 

"the  Church  adore  arcund, 
With  Vials  full    of  Odours   fweet, 

and    Harps  of  fweeter  Sound. 

2  Thoie  are    the   Prayers  of  the    Saints, 

and  thefe-  the    Hymns  they   r?ife  : 
Jefus    is   kind    to    our   Complaints, 

he    loves   to   hear  cur  Praife. 
Eternal    Father,    who    (hall    look 

into    thy  fecret   Will  r 
"Who  but  the   Son  iliould  take   that  Book, 

and  open  ev'ry    Seal  r* 

3  He  mail   fulfil   thy   great   Decrees, 

the    Son   deferves  it   well  ; 
Lo  in  his    Hand  the    Sov'reign   Keys 

of  Heav'n,  and   Death,  and    Heil  ! 
Now   to  the  Lamb,   that   once  was   flain, 

be    endlefs   Bie  flings   paid  ; 
Salvation,  Glory,  Joy    remain 

for   ever  on    thy    Head. 

4  Thou   haft    redeemed   our    Souls   with   Blood, 

haft   fet    the    Pris'ners    free, 
Haft  made   us  Kings   and  Priefts  •  to   God, 
aad  we   fhall  reign  with  thee. 

T7k 


HYMN    XL.  XLI.  333 

The  Worlds  of  Nature  and    of  Grace 

are   put   beneath    thy  PowV ; 
Then   fnorten   thefe    delaying   Days, 

and  bring   the    promis'd  Hour. 

XL.  C  h  r  1  s  t's  Companion  to  the  Weak  and  Tempted* 

1  VTT  71TH   Joy   we   meditate   the  Grace 

YV       of  our   High    Prieft    above  ; 
His   Heart    is   made  of  Tendernefs, 

his    Bowels   melt  with  Love. 
Touch 'd  with  a   Sympathy  within 

he  knows  our   feeble   Frame ; 
He  knows  what   fore  Temptations  mean^ 

for   he  has   felt  the   fame. 

2  But   fpotlefs,  innocent    and   pure 

the  great  Redeemer  flood, 
While   Satan's  fiery  Darts  he   bore, 

and  did  refift  to  Blood. 
He   in  the    Days   of  feeble  Flefh 

pour'd  out   his  Cries  -and  Tears, 
And   in   his   Meafure   feels    afrefh 

what  e7*ry  Member  bears. 

3  He'll  never  quench    the  fmoaking  Flax, 

but    raife   it   to   a  Flame  ; 
The    bruifed  Reed   he  never  breaks, 

nor   fcorns    the   meaner!:   Name. 
Then  let  our   humble  Faith  addrefs 

his   Mercy  and  his  Pow'r, 
We  (hall  obtain  deliv'ring  Grace 

in    the   diftrefling   Hour. 

XLI.     The   Chrifiian    Race. 
1      A   WAKE  our  Souls  (away  our  Fears, 
JljL     Let  ev'ry  trembling  Thought  be.  gone,) 
Awake,   and  run    the  Heav'nly   Race, 
And  put    a  chearful  Courage  on, 
True,  'tis  a   ftrait  and  thorny    Road, 
And   mortal   Spirits  tire  and  faint  ; 
But   they  forget  the  mighty  God, 
That  feeds  the   Strength  of  ev'ry   Saint. 

2  The 


334       HYMN    XLII.  XLIII. 

2  The   Mighty  God  whofe   matchlefs   PowV 
Is   ever  new.  and  ever  young, 

And  firm   endures,  while  endlefs  Years 
Their   everlafting   Circles    run. 
From   Thee,  the  overflowing  Spring, 
Our    Souls    ffeall  drink  a  frefli   Supply 
While   fuch  as   trufl  their   native    Strength 
Shall  melt   away,  and   drop,  and  die. 

3  Swift  as  an  Eagle   cuts  the  Air, 
We'll   mount    aloft  to  thine    Abode ; 

On  Wings   of  Love  our    Souls    (hall  fly, 
Nor  tire  amidft  the   heav'nly   Road. 

XLII.  The  Chrijlian  Warfare. 
i   QTAND  up,  my  Soul,  (hake  off  thy  Fears, 
k3  And  gird  the  Gofpel  Armour  on  ; 
March   to   the   Gates   of  endlefs   Joy, 
Where  thy  great    Captain  Saviour's  gone. 
Hell  and  thy  Sins  refift   thy   Courfe, 
But  Hell  and  Sin  are   vanquifh'd   Foes  ; 
Thy   Jefuj  nail'd  'em  to   the   Crofs, 
And  fung  the  Triumph  when   he  rofe. 

a  What   tho'  thine  inward  Lufts  rebel  ? 
'Tis  but   a   ftruggling  Gafp   for  Life  ; 
The  Weapons   of  victorious   Grace, 
Shall  flay  thy   Sins,  and  end  the  Strife. 
Then  let  my   Soul  march  boldly   on 
Prefs  forward  to  the  heav'nly  Gate, 
There  Peace  and    Joy  eternal  reign, 
And  glitt'ring   Robes  for   Conqu'rors  wait. 

3  There  ftiafl  I  wear  a  ftarry   Crown, 
And  triumph  in  Almighty  Grace, 
While   all  the  Armies  of  the  Skies 
Join   in  my  Glorious  Leader's   Praife. 

XLIII .     Death  and  Burial  of  Saints. 
i  \y\7HY   do  we  mourn   departing  Friends; 
VV      or  fhake  at  Death's   Alarms  ? 
Tis  but  the  Voice   that  Jefus  fends 

to  call  them  to  his  Arms.  Are 


HYMN     XLIV.  335 

Are  we  not  tending  upward   too, 

as  faft   as   Time   can   move  ? 
Nor  would  we   wifh  the    Hours   more  flow, 

to   keep    us  from  our    Love. 

2  Why  mould  we   tremble   to  convey 

their   Bodies  to   the  Tomb  ? 
There  the  dear  Flefh  of  Jefus  lay, 

and   left   a    long  Perfume. 
The  Graves  of  all  his   Saints   he  blefs'd, 

and  foftned  every  Bed  : 
Where  mould  the  dying  Members  reft, 

but  with  the  dying   Head  ? 

3  Thence    he   arofe,  afcending   high, 

and  fhew'd   our   Feet  the   Way  : 
Up   to  the  Lord  our    Flefh  mall  fly 

at   the   Great  rifing  Day. 
Then  let   the   laft   loud  Trumpet   found, 

and  bid  our  Kindred  rife ; 
Awake,  ye   Nations    under   Ground, 

ye    Saints   afcend   the   Skies. 

XLIV.     The  heatifich  Sight  of  Chrift. 

i   T^ROM  Thee,  my  God,  my  Joys   (hall  rife, 
Jl        and    run  eternal    Rounds 
Beyond  the   Limits   of  the  Skies, 

and  all  created   Bounds. 
The  holy  Triumphs   of  my  Soul 

mail  Death  itfelf  out  brave, 
Leave  dull  Mortality  behind, 

and  fly  beyond  the  Grave. 

2  There  where    my  blefled  Jefus  reigns, 
in  Heav'n's   unmeafur'd  Space, 
I'll  fpend  a  long  Eternity 

in  Pleafure  and  in  Praife. 
Millions  of  Years  my  wond'ring  Eyes 

mail  o'er  thy  Beauties  rove, 
And    endlefs   Ages  I'll   adore 
the  Glories  of  thy  Love. 

3  Sweet 


33<*         HYMN     XLV. 

3  Sweet  Jefus,  ev'ry  Smile   of  thine 

fhall  frefli   Endearments,  bring, 
And   thoufand   Taftes  of  new   Delight 

from    all  thy  Graces    ipring. 
Hafte,  my  Beloved,   fetch   my    Soul 

up  to  thy  blefs'd  Abode  ; 
Fly,  for   my   Spirit   longs   to   fee 

my   Saviour  and  my  God. 

XLV.     The  humble  Worfiip  of  Heaven. 

1  TT'ATHER,   I  long,  I   faint    to  fee 
X        the  Place  of  thine  Abode  ; 

I'd  leave  thy  earthly  Courts,   and  flee 

up  to  thy  Seat,  my  God! 
Here  I  behold  thy  diftant  Face, 

and  'tis  a  pleafing  Sight  ; 
But   to    abide    in   thine  Embrace, 

is    Infinite    Delight. 

2  I'd   part  with   all   the  Joys   of   Senfe, 

to  g\zz  upon  thy  Throne; 
Pleafure   fprings    frefh   for    ever   thence, 

unfpeakable,   unknown. 
There   all   the  heav'nly   Hofts   are  feen, 

in   fhining  Ranks  they    move, 
And    drink    immortal  Vigoui  in, 

with  Wonder,   and    with   Love. 

3  Then   at  thy  Feet  with  awful   Fear 

th*  adoring  Armies  fall  ; 
With  Joy  they   fhrink    to   Nothing  there, 

before  th'  Eternal  All. 
There  I  would  vie   with  all    the  Hoft 

in  Duty  and   in  Blifs  ; 
While  Less  than  Nothing   I   could  boaft, 

and   Vanity  confefs. 

4  The  more    thy   Glorie     ftrike  mine  Eyes, 

the  humbler  I   mail   lie  ; 
Thus  while   I  fink,  my  joys  (hall  rife 
unmeafurabij .  high. 

XLVI. 


HYMN    XL VI.  XLVIL     3.7 

XL VI.    Re/urreclhn  of  the  Saints, 

j      A    ND   ranft  this   Body  die  ? 
/JL     this  mortal  Frame  decay  ? 
And  muft   thefe  active  Limbs  of  mine 
lie  mould'ring  in  the  Clay  ? 
God  my  Redeemer  lives, 
and  conflant  from  the   Skies 
Looks  down  and  watches  all   my  Duff, 
'till  he  mall  bid   it  rife. 

2  Array'd    in  glorious   Grace, 
fhall  thefe  vile  Bodies  fhine, 

And  ev'ry  Shape,  and   ev'ry  Facer 

look  heav'nly  and  divine. 
Thefe  lively  Hopes  we   owe 

to    J  ejus*   dying   Love  ; 
We  would  adore  his  Grace  below, 

f.nd  ting  his  Pow'r  above. 

3  Dear  Lord,   accept  the  Praife 
of  thefe   our  humble   Songs, 

'Till  Tunes  of  nobler  Sound  we  raife 
with  our  immortal  Tongues. 

XLVIL  The  glorious  Reign  ^Christ  on  EartM 

1  T     O,  what  a   gjcrious  Sight   appears 
J J      to  our  believing  Eyes  ! 

The  Earth  and  Seas  are  pafs'd   away, 

and  the  old  roiling  Skies. 
From  the  third  Heav 'n  where  God  refides., 

that  holy,  happy   Phce, 
The  New  Jerusalem  comes  down, 

adorn'd  with  (Lining  Grace. 

2  Attending   Angels  fiiout  for   Joy,'. 

and the.  bright  Armies   fing, 
Nor!  a  Is,    behold  the  /acred  Seat 
c/ y,ur  ie/cs-nding  Klng^ 


338  HYMN     XLVIIL 

The  God   of  Glory   down  to   Men 

removes  his   blefs'd  Abode  ; 
Men  the  dear  Objects    of  his  Grace, 

and  He   the   loving   God. 

3   His  own  foft  Hand Jloall  wipe  the  Tears 

from  ev*ry  weeping    Eye, 
And  Pains  and  Groans,  and  Griefs  and  Fears y 

and  Death   itfelf  Jhall  die. 
How  long,  dear  Saviour,  O  how  long  ! 

{hall  this   bright  Hour  delay  ? 
Fly  fwifr.gr  round,  ye  Wheels  of  Time, 

and  bring  the  welcome   Day. 

XLVIII.     The  Laji  Judgment. 

i    C*'EE  where   the   great  incarnate  God 
K  J      fills  a  majeftic  Throne, 
While  from  the  Skies  his  awful  Voice 

bears  the  Jail  judgment  down. 
"  I  am  the  Firfc,   and  I   the   Laft, 

"  thro'  endlefs   Years  the  fame  ; 
"  /  AM  is  my  Memorial   ftill, 

"  and  my  eternal  Name. 

2  "  Such  Favours  as   a  God  can  give,. 

'•  my  Royal  Grace  beftows  ; 
"  Ye  thirfty  Sauls,  come  tafte  the  Streams 

(i  where  Life  and  Pleafure  flows. 
"  The  Saint  that  triumphs  o'er  his  Sins-. 

"  I'll  own  him  for  a  Son  ;. 
"  The  whole  Creation  (hall  reward 

"  the  Conqiieds  he.  has  wen. 

3  "But  bloody  Hands,  and  Hearts  unclean., 

"  and    all  the  lying  Race-, 
"  TheTaivhkii   and   the  fcoffing  Crew, 

'■  that  fpurn  at;  oh'er'd  Grace  : 
"    I  :   he  taken  from    my  Sight, 

and  fail;  in  Iron  Chains, 
"And  headlong  pk-ngM  into  the  Lake 

ri  wheje  Fire  :uv\  Darkcefs  reigns*" 


HYMN    XLIX.  L.  335 

4  O  may  I  ftand  before   the  Lamb, 

when  Earth  and  Seas  are  rled  ! 
And  hear  the  Judge  pronounce  my  Name,, 

with  Bleflings  on  my  Head  ! 
May  I  with  thofe  for  ever   dwell, 

who  here  were  my  Delight, 
While  Sinners,  banifh'd  down  to  Hell, 

no  more  offend  my  Sight. 

XLIX..  Heaven  after  the  General  Judgment, 

1  TT7ITH  Christ  and  all  his  mining  Trains 

VV    Of  Saints  and  Angels,  we  (hall  rife, 
And  pafs  the  glitt'ring  Worlds  around, 
While  Heav'n  wide  opens  to  our  Eyes. 
There  to  the  Father  He'll  refign 
The  vail  Dominion   He  hath  bought, 
Hath  by  his    Spirit   formM  and  rul'd,. 
And  then  to  full  Perfection  brought. 

2  There   glorious  Services  we'll  do  ; 
And  He'll  unvail  his  wond'rous  Ways, 
His  Love  and  Glories   ever  (how  ; 
And  fill'd  with  Joy,  we'll  ever  praife. 

L.   Praife  to  God  the  Fat  her,  Son  and  Spirit*' 

1  T>  LESS'D   be  the  Father,  and  his  Love, 
_D  To  whofe  celeftial  Source  we  owe 
Rivers  of  endlefs  Joys  above, 
And  Rills  of  Comfort  here  below. 
Glory  to  Thee,  Great   Son  of  God, 
From  whofe  dear  wounded  Body  rolls 
A  precious  Stream   of  vital  Blood, 
Pardon   and  Life   for  dying   Souls. 

X~W£..give  Thee,  Sacred  Sp'rit,  Praife, 
Who  4a   our  Hearts   of  Sin   and  Woe^ , 
Makes  living   Springs  of  Grace   arife, 
And    into   boundlefs   Glory  flow. 
Thus  God  the  Father,  God  the  Son, 
And  God  the  Spirit  we  adore, 
That  Sea  of  Life  and  Love  unknown, 
Without  a  Bottom  or  a  Shore* . 

1  •  Qj»-  aim 


40  HYMNS,   8fc 

Glory  to   the  Divito*  Trim tv. 

TO  FATHER,  SON  and  HOLY  GHOST* 
One  GOD,  all  Glory  be, 
As  ever  was,  and  as  now  is, 
fo   to  Eternity. 

Long  Metre. 

TO  FATHER,  SON  and  HOLY,GHOSI\ 
One   GOD    of  univerf.il   Rd-n, 
^Ul  Glory,   as   it  ever  was, 
And   is,  fo  ever  be.     slitKtu 


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